Provides that a scholarship for academic excellence that is declined by a student or is revoked for any reason shall be granted to the next most qualified student.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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1956
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 23, 2023
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Introduced by M. of A. BICHOTTE HERMELYN, COLTON -- read once and
referred to the Committee on Higher Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to scholarships for
academic excellence
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 605-a of the education law, as
2 amended by section 83 of part C of chapter 58 of the laws of 1998, is
3 amended to read as follows:
4 2. In the event that a scholarship awarded is declined by a student,
5 or for any reason is revoked by the commissioner or the president, its
6 benefits shall [lapse and there shall be no further payments or awarding
7 of such scholarship] be granted to the next most qualified student as
8 defined in paragraph (a) of subdivision one of this section.
9 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of August next succeeding
10 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.
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