Bill Text: NY A08848 | 2009-2010 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Prohibits the deferral of awards granted under the Tuition Assistance Program (TAP); ensures that a TAP award will be paid on time so that the student may pay his or her tuition bill on time.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-02-08 - print number 8848a [A08848 Detail]

Download: New_York-2009-A08848-Amended.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                        8848--A
                              2009-2010 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                     June 11, 2009
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       Introduced  by  M. of A. CRESPO, GIBSON -- read once and referred to the
         Committee on Higher Education -- recommitted to the Committee on High-
         er Education in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2  --  committee
         discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
         to said committee
       AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to prohibiting the defer-
         ral of awards granted under the Tuition Assistance Program (TAP)
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Section 667 of the education law is amended by adding a new
    2  subdivision 4 to read as follows:
    3    4. DEFERRAL OF TUITION ASSISTANCE PROGRAM AWARDS PROHIBITED.  UNDER NO
    4  CIRCUMSTANCES SHALL  AN  AWARD  GRANTED  UNDER  THE  TUITION  ASSISTANCE
    5  PROGRAM  (TAP)  PURSUANT  TO  THIS SECTION BE DEFERRED UNTIL THE STUDENT
    6  RECIPIENT GRADUATES FROM HIS OR HER COURSE OF STUDY. THE PRESIDENT SHALL
    7  PAY A TUITION ASSISTANCE PROGRAM AWARD TO THE  STUDENT  RECIPIENT  IN  A
    8  REASONABLE TIMEFRAME IN ORDER TO ENSURE THE STUDENT RECIPIENT IS ABLE TO
    9  APPLY  THE  AWARD  TOWARD  HIS  OR  HER TUITION BILL ON TIME. NO TUITION
   10  ASSISTANCE PROGRAM SHALL BE MADE CONTINGENT UPON  THE  STUDENT'S  GRADU-
   11  ATION FROM HIS OR HER UNDERGRADUATE OR GRADUATE COURSE OF STUDY.
   12    S  2.  This  act  shall  take  effect  immediately, and shall apply to
   13  academic quarters and semesters beginning on or after August 1, 2010.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD04958-03-0