What's happening
This bill requires New York State to annually fund any increases in tuition credit for higher education starting fiscal year 2020-2021.
Why it matters
Ensures predictable funding for tuition credit increases. By mandating the state to cover any annual increases, the bill protects colleges, students, and families from sudden financial shortfalls or surprise tuition hikes that might otherwise occur if the state failed to keep pace.
Stabilizes student aid programs. Reliable state appropriations for tuition credits help maintain the value and effectiveness of financial aid programs, ensuring that increases in tuition do not erode the actual benefit students receive year-to-year.
Shifts financial responsibility to the state, not institutions. By requiring the state to cover increased costs, this legislation reduces pressure on public colleges and universities to absorb these costs themselves, which could otherwise lead to budget cuts or diminished services.
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Fund Tuition Credit Increases
In Senate Committee · Higher Education · Sponsor Toby Ann Stavisky
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STATE OF NEW YORK
720
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY (Prefiled)
January 9, 2019
Introduced by M. of A. GLICK, LUPARDO, PICHARDO, LIFTON, EPSTEIN, RAMOS, ARROYO -- read once and referred to the Committee on Higher Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to state appropriations for increases in tuition credit
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Subparagraph 4 of paragraph h of subdivision 2 of section 355 of the education law is amended by adding a new clause (vii) to read as follows:
(vii) Beginning in state fiscal year two thousand twenty--two thousand twenty-one and thereafter, the state shall appropriate and make available general fund operating support to cover any increase in the tuition credit pursuant to section six hundred eighty-nine-a of this title annually.
§ 2. Subparagraph 4 of paragraph h of subdivision 2 of section 355 of the education law is amended by adding a new closing paragraph to read as follows:
Beginning in state fiscal year two thousand twenty--two thousand twenty-one and thereafter, the state shall appropriate and make available general fund operating support to cover any increase in the tuition credit pursuant to section six hundred eighty-nine-a of this title annually.
§ 3. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 7 of section 6206 of the education law is amended by adding a new subparagraph (vi) to read as follows:
(vi) Beginning in state fiscal year two thousand twenty--two thousand twenty-one and thereafter, the state shall appropriate and make available general fund operating support to cover any increase in the tuition credit pursuant to section six hundred eighty-nine-a of this chapter annually.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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§ 4. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 7 of section 6206 of the education law is amended by adding a new closing paragraph to read as follows:
Beginning in state fiscal year two thousand twenty--two thousand twenty-one and thereafter, the state shall appropriate and make available general fund operating support to cover any increase in the tuition credit pursuant to section six hundred eighty-nine-a of this chapter annually.
§ 5. This act shall take effect immediately; provided, however that the amendments to subparagraph 4 of paragraph h of subdivision 2 of section 355 of the education law made by section one of this act shall not affect the expiration and reversion of such subparagraph pursuant to section 16 of chapter 260 of the laws of 2011, as amended, when upon such date section two of this act shall take effect; and provided, further that the amendments to paragraph (a) of subdivision 7 of section 6206 of the education law made by section three of this act shall not affect the expiration and reversion of such paragraph pursuant to section 16 of chapter 260 of the laws of 2011, as amended, when upon such date section four of this act shall take effect.
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