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A11515 • 2025

Extends the duration of tuition assistance awards to five years

Extends the duration of tuition assistance awards to five years

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Sponsor
Phara Souffrant Forrest
Last action
2026-05-28
Official status
In Assembly Committee
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Extends the duration of tuition assistance awards to five years

Extends the duration of tuition assistance awards to five years Extends the duration of tuition assistance awards to five years.

What This Bill Does

  • Extends the duration of tuition assistance awards to five years Extends the duration of tuition assistance awards to five years.

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Bill History

  1. 2026-05-28 Assembly

    REFERRED TO HIGHER EDUCATION

Official Summary Text

Extends the duration of tuition assistance awards to five years
Extends the duration of tuition assistance awards to five years.

Current Bill Text

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S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          11515

                                  I N  A S S E M B L Y

                                      May 28, 2026
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Forrest) --
          read once and referred to the Committee on Higher Education

        AN ACT to amend the education  law,  in  relation  to  the  duration  of
          tuition assistance awards

          THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
        BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

     1    Section 1. Section 604 of the education law is amended by adding a new
     2  subdivision 1-a to read as follows:
     3    1-A. TUITION ASSISTANCE AWARDS PROVIDED FOR IN SUBDIVISION ONE OF THIS
     4  SECTION SHALL BE AVAILABLE TO STUDENTS ENROLLED IN APPROVED PROGRAMS FOR
     5  FIVE ACADEMIC YEARS IN THE AGGREGATE.
     6    § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of July  next  succeeding
     7  the date on which it shall have become a law.








         EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD10883-01-5