What's happening
This bill amends education law to prohibit Tuition Assistance Program (TAP) grants for students enrolled at for-profit universities in New York.
Why it matters
Directs state financial aid exclusively toward public and nonprofit colleges. , which could shift enrollment patterns as students at for-profit institutions lose access to TAP grants and may be incentivized to consider alternative schools.
Aims to address concerns about the quality, cost, and outcomes of for-profit colleges. , reflecting ongoing debates about their use of state and federal aid, student debt levels, and graduation rates.
Could disproportionately impact low-income and nontraditional students. who are more likely to attend for-profit institutions, potentially limiting their higher education options unless alternative support or pathways are provided.
Sends a policy signal about state priorities in higher education funding. , potentially prompting for-profit institutions to change practices, restructure, or advocate for alternative funding mechanisms to maintain enrollment.
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End TAP for For-Profit Colleges
In Senate Committee · Higher Education · Sponsor James Skoufis
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STATE OF NEW YORK
8251
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
June 10, 2019
Introduced by M. of A. EPSTEIN -- read once and referred to the Committee on Higher Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to prohibiting awarding TAP grants to those enrolled at for-profit universities
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Paragraph c of subdivision 3 of section 667 of the education law, as added by chapter 83 of the laws of 1995 and as relettered by section 2 of part J of chapter 58 of the laws of 2011, is amended to read as follows:
c. Restrictions. In no [even shall] event shall any award:
(i) be made unless the annual tuition (exclusive of educational fees) and, if applicable, the college fee levied by the state university of New York pursuant to the April first, nineteen hundred sixty-four financing agreement with the New York state dormitory authority charged for the program in which the student is enrolled total at least two hundred dollars; or
(ii) exceed the amount by which such annual tuition (exclusive of educational fees) and, if applicable, the college fee levied by the state university of New York pursuant to the April first, nineteen hundred sixty-four financing agreement with the New York state dormitory authority exceed the total of all other state, federal, or other educational aid that is received or receivable by such student during the school year for which such award is applicable and that, in the judgment of the commissioner, would duplicate the purposes of the award; or
(iii) be made when income exceeds the maximum income set forth in this subdivision. The commissioner shall list in his regulations all major state and federal financial aid available to New York state students and identify any forms of aid that are duplicative of the purposes of the tuition assistance program. For the purposes of this subdivision, neither United States war orphan educational benefits nor benefits under
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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the veterans' readjustment act of nineteen hundred sixty-six shall be considered as federal or other educational aid; or
(iv) be made to anyone matriculated at a for-profit institution.
§ 2. This act shall take effect on the first of July next succeeding the date on which it shall have become a law. Effective immediately the addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation of this act on its effective date are authorized to be made on or before such date.
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