Bill Text: NY S00277 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Senate Bill 277 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Relates to tuition assistance program awards.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-02-26 - PRINT NUMBER 277A [S00277 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S00277-Amended.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                         277--A
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                       (Prefiled)
                                     January 7, 2015
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by Sens. LAVALLE, PERALTA -- read twice and ordered printed,
          and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Higher  Education
          -- recommitted to the Committee on Higher Education in accordance with
          Senate  Rule  6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
          reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
        AN ACT to amend the education law, in  relation  to  tuition  assistance
          program awards
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Paragraph a of subdivision 3 of section 667 of  the  educa-
     2  tion law, as amended by section 1 of part B of chapter 60 of the laws of
     3  2000,  item  1 of clause (A) of subparagraph (i) as amended by section 1
     4  of part H of chapter 58 of the laws of 2011, the  opening  paragraph  of
     5  item 1 of clause (A) of subparagraph (i) as amended by section 2 of part
     6  X of chapter 56 of the laws of 2014, subitem (a) of item 1 of clause (A)
     7  of  subparagraph  (i) as amended by section 2 of part U of chapter 56 of
     8  the laws of 2014, subitem (b) of item 1 of clause  (A)  of  subparagraph
     9  (i) as amended by section 3 of part U of chapter 56 of the laws of 2014,
    10  subitem  (c)  of  item 1 of clause (A) of subparagraph (i) as amended by
    11  section 1 of part U of chapter 56 of the laws of 2014,  subitem  (d)  of
    12  item 1 of clause (A) of subparagraph (i) as added by section 1 of part E
    13  of  chapter 58 of the laws of 2011, item 2 of clause (A) of subparagraph
    14  (i) as amended by section 2 of part H of chapter 58 of the laws of  2011
    15  and  subparagraph  (iii) as amended by section 3 of part H of chapter 58
    16  of the laws of 2011, is amended to read as follows:
    17    a. Amount. The president shall make awards  to  students  enrolled  in
    18  degree-granting   institutions  or  registered  not-for-profit  business
    19  schools qualified for tax exemption under § 501(c)(3)  of  the  internal
    20  revenue code for federal income tax purposes in the following amounts:
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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