O'Donnell, Zinerman, Gibbs, Epstein, Gunther, Colton, Cruz, Burdick, Reyes, Cook, Ramos, Levenberg,
Brook-Krasny, Jacobson, De Los Santos
 
MLTSPNSR
 
Amd §667-c, Ed L
 
Permits tuition assistance program awards to be made to part-time students enrolled in certain degree granting institutions chartered or authorized by the New York state board of regents.
NEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLY MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT OF LEGISLATION submitted in accordance with Assembly Rule III, Sec 1(f)
 
BILL NUMBER: A5833
SPONSOR: Hyndman
 
TITLE OF BILL:
An act to amend the education law, in relation to permitting tuition
assistance program awards to be made to part-time students enrolled in
certain degree granting institutions chartered or authorized by the New
York state board of regents
 
PURPOSE:
The purpose of the legislation is to allow otherwise eligible students
who attend degree-granting proprietary colleges to receive part-time TAP
awards.
 
JUSTIFICATION:
The 2022 enacted state budget authorized Tuition Assistance program
awards for eligible students attending part-time. However, part-time TAP
was limited to students attending SUNY, CUNY or non-profit colleges or
universities. Student who would normally receive TAP who choose to
attend one of New York's proprietary degree granting college are not
eligible to receive part-time TAP.
New York recognized that attending college part-time may lead to better
outcomes as student's have many considerations; family obligations, work
commitments, etc. Providing for part-time TAP awards was a positive
change to this longstanding financial aid programs.
Students attending proprietary degree granting schools in NYS have long
been included in TAP. This bill would continue that by allowing them to
be included in part-time TAP as well.
 
BILL HISTORY:
New Bill.
 
FISCAL IMPACT:
Estimated at $150 million in 2022.
 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This bill shall take effect immediately.
STATE OF NEW YORK
________________________________________________________________________
5833
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
March 23, 2023
___________
Introduced by M. of A. HYNDMAN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Higher Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to permitting tuition
assistance program awards to be made to part-time students enrolled in
certain degree granting institutions chartered or authorized by the
New York state board of regents
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 1 of section 667-c of the educa-
2 tion law, as amended by section 1 of part E of chapter 56 of the laws of
3 2022, is amended to read as follows:
4 a. part-time students enrolled at [the state university, a community
5 college, the city university of New York, and a non-profit college or
6 university incorporated by the regents or by the legislature] degree
7 granting institutions chartered or authorized by the New York state
8 board or regents who meet all requirements for tuition assistance
9 program awards except for the students' part-time attendance; or
10 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD10275-01-3