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2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 11 - State Teachers' Retirement System for Public School Teachers › 514 - Benefits to Participants in Old Retirement Fund.

§ 514. Benefits to participants in old retirement fund.  All annuities
  of  annuitants  on  the rolls of the retirement fund on the thirty-first
  day of July, nineteen hundred twenty-one, shall be paid thereafter  from
  the  pension  accumulation  fund created by this article.  The amount of
  the annuity of any annuitant on the rolls of such  retirement  fund,  at
  such time, who retired on a full annuity shall be not less than one-half
  of  his final average salary, and not less than four hundred dollars per
  annum; nor shall the allowance of any annuitant  on  such  roll  retired
  from disability be less than a proportionate amount of such minima based
  on the annuitant's years of service.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 11 - State Teachers' Retirement System for Public School Teachers › 515 - Funds Enumerated.

§ 515. Funds enumerated.  The funds created are:
a. The annuity savings fund.
b. The annuity reserve fund.
c. The pension accumulation fund.
d. The pension reserve fund.
e. The supplemental retirement allowance fund.
f. The expense fund.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 11 - State Teachers' Retirement System for Public School Teachers › 518 - Pension Reserve Fund.

§ 518. Pension  reserve  fund.   The pension reserve fund shall be the
  fund from which shall be paid the pensions to new entrants on account of
  which reserves shall be transferred from the pension accumulation  fund.
  Should  any  disability  pension payable from said fund be canceled, the
  pension reserve thereon shall thereupon be transferred from the  pension
  reserve  fund to the pension accumulation fund.  Should the pension of a
  disability beneficiary be reduced as a result  of  an  increase  in  his
  earning  capacity,  the  amount  of  the annual reduction in his pension
  shall be paid annually into the pension  accumulation  fund  during  the
  period of such reduction.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 11 - State Teachers' Retirement System for Public School Teachers › 518-A - Supplemental Retirement Allowance Fund.

§ 518-a. Supplemental  retirement  allowance  fund.   The supplemental
  retirement allowance fund shall be the fund from which shall be paid the
  supplemental retirement allowances  provided  by  section  five  hundred
  thirty-two of this article.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 11 - State Teachers' Retirement System for Public School Teachers › 519 - Expense Fund.

§ 519.   Expense fund.   The expense fund shall be the fund from which
  the expense of the administration of the retirement system shall be paid
  exclusive of amounts payable  as  retirement  allowances  and  as  other
  benefits  provided  herein.   Contributions shall be made to the expense
  fund as follows:
1. The retirement board shall determine the amount required to  defray
  the  expenses  allocated to those functions which directly or indirectly
  affect the system's investment operations.  This  amount  so  determined
  shall  be  collected  from net investment income which shall include but
  not be limited to interest, dividends, and realized gains and losses.
2. The retirement board shall determine annually the  amount  required
  to  defray  the  remaining estimated expenses in the ensuing fiscal year
  and shall certify such amount to the commissioner of education who shall
  apportion to each employer a  proportionate  part  thereof  as  provided
  under subdivision two of section five hundred twenty-one.  Each employer
  shall  make payment for the amount so apportioned to him in the same way
  as he shall make other payments provided for by this article.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 11 - State Teachers' Retirement System for Public School Teachers › 520 - Duties of Employer.

§ 520. Duties  of  employer.  1. Each employer shall keep such records
  and from time to time shall furnish such information as  the  retirement
  board in the discharge of its duties may require.
2.  a.  Upon  the  employment  of any teacher to whom this article may
  apply,  he  shall  be  informed  by  his  employer  of  his  duties  and
  obligations  in  connection with the retirement system as a condition of
  his employment.  Every teacher accepting employment shall be  deemed  to
  consent  and  agree  to  any  deductions  from his compensation required
  herein and to all other provisions of this article.
b. Upon the employment of any teacher whose right to membership in the
  system has been made  optional  by  the  retirement  board  pursuant  to
  subdivision  two  of  section  five  hundred  three  of this article the
  employer shall inform such teacher in writing of the right to  join  the
  system.  Each  such teacher shall acknowledge the receipt of such notice
  by signing a copy thereof and filing it with  such  employer.  Provided,
  however,  the  failure  to  inform  such teacher shall not in any way be
  construed to waive the requirement that membership for  such  a  teacher
  commences  only  when  an  application  for membership is filed with the
  system nor shall it  be  construed  to  waive  any  of  the  eligibility
  requirements for previous service credit.
3.  Notwithstanding  any  other  law, rule or regulation affecting the
  salary, pay, compensation, other prerequisites or tenure of any  teacher
  to  whom  this article applies, or shall apply, and notwithstanding that
  the minimum salary, pay, compensation or other  prerequisites,  provided
  by  law  for  such  teacher  shall be reduced thereby, payment less said
  deductions shall be a full and complete discharge and acquittance of all
  claims and demands whatsoever for service rendered by such member during
  the period covered by such payment.
4. During September of each year,  or  at  such  other  times  as  the
  retirement  board  shall  approve,  each  employer  shall certify to the
  retirement board the names of all teachers to whom this article applies.
5. Each employer shall on the first day of each calendar month  or  at
  such less frequent intervals as the retirement board may approve, notify
  the  retirement  board  of  the  employment  of  new teachers, removals,
  withdrawals and changes in salary of members that  shall  have  occurred
  during  the  month  preceding  or  the  period  covered  since  the last
  notification.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 11 - State Teachers' Retirement System for Public School Teachers › 524 - Exemption From Taxation and Execution.

§ 524. Exemption  from taxation and execution.  The right of a teacher
  to a pension, an annuity, or a retirement allowance, to  the  return  of
  contributions,  any  benefit  or right accrued or accruing to any person
  under the provisions of this article, and  the  moneys  in  the  various
  funds  created  hereunder, are hereby exempt from any state or municipal
  tax, and shall not be subject to execution, garnishment,  attachment  or
  any  other  process  whatsoever,  and shall be unassignable except as in
  this article specifically provided.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 11 - State Teachers' Retirement System for Public School Teachers › 525 - Protection Against Fraud.

§ 525. Protection  against  fraud.  1.  Any person who shall knowingly
  make any false statement, or shall falsify or permit to be falsified any
  record or records of this retirement system in any  attempt  to  defraud
  such  system  as a result of such act, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor,
  and shall be punishable therefor under the laws  of  the  state  of  New
  York.
2.  Any violation of subdivision one of this section that results in a
  member or beneficiary of the retirement system receiving  a  benefit  or
  payment in excess of one thousand dollars more than he or she would have
  been entitled to shall be a class E felony. Any violation of subdivision
  one  of  this  section  that  results  in a member or beneficiary of the
  retirement system to receive a benefit or payment  in  excess  of  three
  thousand  dollars  more than he or she would have been entitled to shall
  be a class D felony.
3. Should any change or error in records result  in  any  employee  or
  beneficiary  receiving  from  the retirement system more or less than he
  would have been entitled to receive had the records been correct,  then,
  on  the  discovery of any such error, the retirement board shall correct
  such error, and, as far as practicable, shall  adjust  the  payments  in
  such  a  manner that the actuarial equivalent of the benefit to which he
  was correctly entitled shall be paid.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 11 - State Teachers' Retirement System for Public School Teachers › 527 - .

§ 527.  Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary the
  retirement  board  shall determine the annuity payable as of the date of
  retirement  to  each  member  of  the  system  retired  prior   to   the
  twenty-eighth  day of August, nineteen hundred fifty-eight, on the basis
  of the mortality tables in force  either  on  the  first  day  of  July,
  nineteen  hundred  forty  or  the  date  such  person joined the system,
  whichever occurred later, and shall cause any  additional  amount  which
  would  have  been  paid from the date of retirement had the annuity been
  determined on such basis at  retirement,  to  be  paid  to  any  retired
  member, his designated beneficiary or estate, provided an application is
  filed  with  the  retirement  board  in  the  manner  prescribed  by the
  retirement board and thereafter any such annuity as so determined  shall
  be paid to each such retired member or his designated beneficiary.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 11 - State Teachers' Retirement System for Public School Teachers › 537 - Lump Sum Payment of De Minimis Service Retirement Benefit.

§ 537. Lump  sum  payment  of  de  minimis service retirement benefit.
  Notwithstanding  any  other  law  to  the  contrary,  a  member  of  the
  retirement  system  who  is  entitled to receive a retirement allowance,
  other than for disability, pursuant  to  this  article  or  pursuant  to
  article  eleven  or  fifteen  of the retirement and social security law,
  which retirement allowance prior to optional modification is twenty-four
  hundred dollars per annum or less, may elect at retirement  to  receive,
  in  lieu of such retirement allowance, a lump sum payment which has been
  certified by the actuary to be of actuarial  equivalent  value  to  such
  retirement allowance and approved by the retirement board. Such lump sum
  shall be calculated using the interest rate on thirty year United States
  treasury  bonds  as  of  January first of the calendar year in which the
  retirement becomes effective. Upon payment of such lump sum, any and all
  obligations of the retirement system to such  member  shall  be  totally
  discharged.  Commencing  January  first, two thousand four, the interest
  rate on ten year United States treasury obligations as of January  first
  of  the calendar year in which the retirement becomes effective shall be
  used. Commencing January first, two thousand sixteen, the average annual
  interest rate on ten year United States  treasury  obligations  for  the
  days  during  the calendar year that precedes the calendar year in which
  the retirement becomes effective shall be used.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 11 - State Teachers' Retirement System for Public School Teachers › 538 - Excess Benefit Plan.

§  538.  Excess  benefit  plan.  Notwithstanding  any other law to the
  contrary, the retirement board is authorized in its sole  discretion  to
  establish a qualified governmental excess benefit arrangement within the
  meaning  of,  in conformity with and then only to the extent and so long
  as permitted by subsection m of section  four  hundred  fifteen  of  the
  Internal  Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, for the purpose of providing
  such retirement  benefits  as  would  otherwise  have  been  payable  to
  retirees  of  the  system, but for the application of the limitations on
  benefits of subsection b of section four hundred fifteen of the Internal
  Revenue  Code  of  1986,  as  amended.  The  retirement  board  is  also
  authorized  to promulgate such rules and regulations as may be necessary
  to implement a qualified governmental excess benefit plan as provided in
  this section.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 12 - Health and Safety Grants for Nonpublic School Children › 549 - Legislative Findings.

§ 549. Legislative   findings.    The  legislature  hereby  finds  and
  declares that:
1. The state has  a  primary  responsibility  to  ensure  the  health,
  welfare  and  safety  of  children  attending  both public and nonpublic
  schools.
2. The state discharges this responsibility to public school  children
  through  substantial  amounts of per pupil financial assistance to local
  school districts. The fiscal crisis in nonpublic education, however, has
  caused  a  diminution  of  proper  maintenance  and   repair   programs,
  threatening the health, welfare and safety of nonpublic school children,
  particularly  in  urban  areas. Such areas are generally identified by a
  high incidence of families receiving assistance  to  dependent  children
  and   deteriorating  physical  structures,  including  nonpublic  school
  buildings. Financial resources necessary to properly maintain and repair
  such buildings are beyond the capabilities of  low-income  people  whose
  children attend nonpublic schools.
3. In recognition of the financial plight of urban areas in attracting
  qualified  teachers,  the federal government has enacted Title IV of the
  Higher Education Act of  nineteen  hundred  sixty-five,  which  provides
  incentives  to  teachers to instruct in those schools which serve a high
  concentration of students from low-income families.
4. It is  incumbent  upon  the  state  to  ensure  that  the  physical
  environment in such Title IV areas is both healthy and safe.  Incidental
  to such goals, but none the less significant, is the contribution that a
  healthy  and  safe  school  environment  makes to the stability of urban
  neighborhoods.
5. To insure a  healthy  and  safe  school  environment  for  children
  attending  nonpublic schools, the state has the right to make grants for
  maintenance and repair expenditures which are clearly  secular,  neutral
  and non-ideological in nature.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 12 - Health and Safety Grants for Nonpublic School Children › 550 - Definitions.

§ 550. Definitions.  In this article:
1. "Commissioner" shall mean the state commissioner of education.
2.  "Qualifying school" shall mean a nonprofit elementary or secondary
  school in the state of New York, other than a public school,  which  (a)
  is  providing  instruction  in  accordance  with  article  seventeen and
  section thirty-two hundred four of this chapter, (b) has not been  found
  to  be  in  violation  of  Title  VI of the Civil Rights Act of nineteen
  hundred sixty-four, 78 Stat. 252, 42 U.S.C. § 2000  (d),  (c)  which  is
  entitled  to a tax exemption under section five hundred one (a) and five
  hundred one (c)(3) of the Federal  Internal  Revenue  Code  of  nineteen
  hundred  fifty-four,  as amended, and (d) has been designated during the
  base year as serving a high  concentration  of  pupils  from  low-income
  families for purposes of Title IV of the Federal Higher Education Act of
  nineteen hundred sixty-five (20 U.S.C.A. § 425).
3.  "Base  year"  shall mean the school year immediately preceding the
  current year.
4.  "Current  year"  shall  mean  the  school  year  during  which  an
  apportionment is to be paid pursuant to this article.
5.  "Health,  welfare  and safety grants" shall mean the apportionment
  made pursuant to this article which shall be used  for  the  maintenance
  and  repair  of  nonpublic school facilities and equipment to ensure the
  health, welfare and safety of enrolled pupils.
6. "Maintenance and repair" shall mean the provision of  heat,  light,
  water,  ventilation  and  sanitary  facilities; cleaning, janitorial and
  custodial services; snow removal; necessary  upkeep  and  renovation  of
  buildings, grounds and equipment; fire and accident protection; and such
  other items as the commissioner may deem necessary to ensure the health,
  welfare and safety of enrolled pupils.
7.   "Average  daily  attendance"  shall  mean  the  total  number  of
  attendance days of enrolled pupils in grades one through  twelve  during
  the  base  year, divided by the number of days the school was in session
  during such year.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 12 - Health and Safety Grants for Nonpublic School Children › 551 - Apportionment.

§ 551. Apportionment.  1.  In order to meet proper health, welfare and
  safety standards in qualifying schools for the  benefit  of  the  pupils
  enrolled  therein, there shall be apportioned health, welfare and safety
  grants by the commissioner to each  qualifying  school  for  the  school
  years  beginning  on and after July first, nineteen hundred seventy-one,
  an amount equal to the product  of  thirty  dollars  multiplied  by  the
  average daily attendance of pupils receiving instruction in such school,
  to  be  applied  for costs of maintenance and repair. Such apportionment
  shall be increased by  ten  dollars  multiplied  by  the  average  daily
  attendance   of  pupils  receiving  instruction  in  a  school  building
  constructed prior to nineteen hundred forty-seven. In no event shall the
  per pupil annual allowance computed under this section exceed fifty  per
  centum  of  the  average  per  pupil  cost of equivalent maintenance and
  repair in the public schools of the state  on  a  state-wide  basis,  as
  determined  by the commissioner, and in no event shall the apportionment
  to a qualifying school exceed the amount of expenditures for maintenance
  and repair of such school as reported pursuant to section  five  hundred
  fifty-two of this article.
2.  The apportionment pursuant to this section shall be reduced by one
  one hundred eightieth for each day less than  one  hundred  eighty  days
  that  such school was actually in total session in the base year, except
  that the commissioner may disregard such reduction up to five days if he
  finds that the school was not in session for  one  hundred  eighty  days
  because  of  extraordinary  adverse  weather  conditions,  impairment of
  heating facilities, insufficiency of water supply, shortage of  fuel  or
  the  destruction  of  a school building, and if the commissioner further
  finds that such school cannot make up such days  of  instruction  during
  the  school  year. No such reduction shall be made, however, for any day
  on which such school was in session for the purpose of administering the
  regents examinations or the regents  scholarship  examinations,  or  any
  day,  not  to  exceed  three  days,  when such school was not in session
  because of a conference of teachers  called  by  the  principal  of  the
  school.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 12 - Health and Safety Grants for Nonpublic School Children › 552 - Applications, Reports, Regulations.

§ 552. Applications,  reports,  regulations.    Each qualifying school
  which seeks an apportionment pursuant to this article  shall  submit  to
  the  commissioner  an  application therefor, at such times, in such form
  and containing such information as the commissioner  may  by  regulation
  prescribe  in  order  to  carry  out the purposes of this article.  Such
  applications shall include an audited statement of the  expenditures  of
  maintenance and repair of such qualifying school for the base year.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 12 - Health and Safety Grants for Nonpublic School Children › 553 - Installments.

§ 553. Installments.    The  amount  to be apportioned to a qualifying
  school in any current year shall be paid in two equal installments,  the
  first  to be made on or before January fifteenth and the other not later
  than June fifteenth of such  year,  except  that  for  the  school  year
  commencing  July  first, nineteen hundred seventy-one such apportionment
  shall be made in one payment  on  or  before  June  fifteenth,  nineteen
  hundred  seventy-two.    The commissioner may provide for later payments
  for the purpose of adjusting and correcting apportionments.  The  amount
  to  be  apportioned to a qualifying school shall be payable on order and
  warrant of the comptroller on vouchers  certified  or  approved  by  the
  commissioner in the manner provided by law.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 12-A - Arthur O. Eve Elementary and Secondary Education Opportunity Program › 559 - Legislative Findings.

§ 559. Legislative findings. The legislature hereby finds and declares
  that:
1. The vitality of our pluralistic society is, in part, dependent upon
  the  capacity  of  individual  parents  to  select  a school, other than
  public, for the education of their children. A healthy  competitive  and
  diverse alternative to public education is not only desirable but indeed
  vital  to  a state and nation that have continually reaffirmed the value
  of individual differences.
2.  The  Supreme  Court  of  the  United  States  has  recognized  and
  reaffirmed  this  right of selection. This right, however, is diminished
  or even denied to children of lower-income families, whose  parents,  of
  all  groups,  have the least options in determining where their children
  are to be educated.
3. Quality education is made possible for all children  in  our  state
  only  because  the  burden of providing it has been carried by taxpayers
  who support both public and nonpublic education. Any precipitous decline
  in the number of nonpublic school pupils would cause a massive  increase
  in  public school enrollment and costs. Such an increase would seriously
  jeopardize quality education for all children and aggravate  an  already
  serious fiscal crisis in public education.
4. In recognition of the initiative of parents who support both public
  and  nonpublic  education,  it  is a legitimate purpose for the state to
  partially  relieve  the  financial  burden  of  parents  who  provide  a
  nonpublic  education  for  their children which satisfies the compulsory
  education laws of the state. Such assistance is clearly secular, neutral
  and nonideological in nature and is consistent with the  historical  and
  continuing  role  of  the state in providing a quality education for all
  children and in nurturing a pluralistic society.
5. The Arthur O. Eve Elementary and  Secondary  Education  Opportunity
  Program  is  hereby established, which consists of tuition reimbursement
  for parents of low income, in order to  provide  partial  assistance  in
  meeting  the  financial burden of supporting the compulsory education of
  their  children  who  are  full-time  students  in  New  York  nonpublic
  elementary and secondary schools.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 12-A - Arthur O. Eve Elementary and Secondary Education Opportunity Program › 561 - Definitions.

§ 561. Definitions.    The  following  terms,  whenever  used  in this
  article, shall have the following meanings:
a. "Parent" means a legal resident of the state of New York with a New
  York taxable income of under five thousand  dollars  who  is  a  parent,
  stepparent,  adoptive  parent  and the spouse of an adoptive parent of a
  pupil enrolled in a nonpublic school, or a resident  with  such  taxable
  income standing in loco parentis to such pupil.
b.  "Taxable  income" means the amount of combined net taxable income,
  if any, of both parents computed in accordance with  the  provisions  of
  section  six  hundred eleven of the tax law computed without the benefit
  of the modification of  federal  adjusted  gross  income  for  nonpublic
  school  tuition  pursuant to paragraph (14) of subsection (c) of section
  six hundred twelve of the tax law, for the  year  for  which  a  tuition
  reimbursement  payment  is  sought. If the parents of a pupil are living
  apart, the taxable income of the parent who claims  reimbursement  under
  this  article shall be based upon the taxable income of that parent with
  whom the pupil is living, or who exercises custody if  the  pupil  is  a
  minor,  or  would exercise custody if the applicant were a minor and any
  appropriate payments for the support of the pupil from the other parent.
c. "Nonpublic school" means  any  nonprofit  elementary  or  secondary
  school  in  the State of New York, other than a public school, which (i)
  is providing  instruction  in  accordance  with  article  seventeen  and
  section thirty-two hundred four of this chapter, (ii) has not been found
  to  be  in violation of Title VI Civil Rights Act of 1964, 78 Stat. 252,
  42 U.S.C. § 2000 (d), and (iii) which is entitled  to  a  tax  exemption
  under  section  five hundred one (a) and five hundred one (c) (3) of the
  Federal  Internal  Revenue  Code  of  nineteen  hundred  fifty-four,  as
  amended.
d.  "Tuition"  means  the  amount  actually  paid  by a parent for the
  enrollment of a pupil at a nonpublic school for the  calendar  year  for
  which a tuition reimbursement payment is sought.
e.  "Pupil"  means  a  resident  of the state of New York who has been
  enrolled full-time in a nonpublic school  and  whose  parents'  combined
  taxable income is less than five thousand dollars.
f.  "Commissioner" means the commissioner of education of the State of
  New York.
g. "Regular school year" means all of the months of the calendar  year
  exclusive of July and August.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 12-A - Arthur O. Eve Elementary and Secondary Education Opportunity Program › 563 - Commissioner; Powers.

§ 563. Commissioner;    powers.      The   commissioner   shall   have
  responsibility for the administration of the  program  created  by  this
  article  and  may  promulgate such regulations as are necessary to carry
  out the provisions of this article.   The amount  required  to  be  paid
  under  the  provisions  of  this  article  shall be payable on order and
  warrant of the comptroller on vouchers  certified  or  approved  by  the
  commissioner in the manner provided by law.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 13 - Higher Education Student Financial Aid Programs › 602 - Duties of the Commissioner.

§ 602. Duties  of the commissioner.  1. Selection and certification of
  academic performance award recipients. (a) The commissioner shall select
  the qualified recipients of  academic  performance  awards,  from  among
  candidates  who meet and exceed the minimum eligibility requirements, in
  order of merit on the basis of such combination of test scores, academic
  records,  and  personal  qualifications  as   the   commissioner   deems
  appropriate.  If  awards  are  allocated  on  the basis of geographic or
  political units in the  state,  and  if  for  any  reason  there  is  an
  insufficient  number  of qualified applicants in any unit, the remaining
  number of awards in such unit shall be allocated to the  best  qualified
  applicants  in  the entire state. No person shall be eligible to receive
  an academic performance award under this article who  fails  to  achieve
  the  minimum  standard  of  test  scores,  academic  record,  or, in the
  judgment of  the  commissioner,  personal  qualifications  necessary  to
  demonstrate  promise  of  successful completion of the program for which
  the award is made; (b) The commissioner shall certify to  the  president
  those students eligible to receive academic performance awards.
2.   The   commissioner  shall  promulgate  regulations  defining  the
  following terms  by  which  the  president  can  determine  a  student's
  eligibility  for  student  aid and loan programs: (a) full-time study or
  attendance;  (b)  part-time  study  or  attendance;  (c)  full-time  and
  part-time  accelerated study beyond the regular program of study for the
  academic year; (d) permissible use of general and  academic  performance
  awards; (e) matriculation; and (f) loss of good academic standing.
3.   The  commissioner  shall  promulgate  regulations  by  which  the
  president shall determine whether a  student  has  entered  an  approved
  program  during  the academic year prior to the normal effective date of
  the student's award.
4. If any person  because  of  administrative  error  or  inadvertency
  should  fail  to  receive  an  academic performance award which he would
  otherwise be entitled to receive,  the  commissioner  may  certify  such
  person to the president as eligible to receive such award without regard
  to  the  total  number of such awards authorized under this article, and
  payments shall be made thereon out  of  moneys  available  in  the  same
  manner as other academic performance awards are paid.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 13 - Higher Education Student Financial Aid Programs › 603 - Evaluation by the Board of Regents.

§ 603. Evaluation  by  the  board  of  regents.   On or before January
  first, nineteen hundred  seventy-six,  and  annually  thereafter  on  or
  before  December  first, the board of regents shall make a report to the
  governor and the temporary president of the senate, the speaker  of  the
  assembly,  the  senate  finance  committee,  the assembly ways and means
  committee  and  the  standing  committees  of  the  legislature   having
  jurisdiction of higher education evaluating all financial assistance and
  loan  programs  established  by this article, which report shall contain
  such recommendations as the regents may deem appropriate.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 13 - Higher Education Student Financial Aid Programs › 604 - General Awards.

§  604.  General  awards.  1.  Tuition  assistance  program awards are
  available for all students who are enrolled in approved programs and who
  demonstrate the ability to complete such  courses,  in  accordance  with
  standards established by the commissioner.
2.  Regents  awards for children of deceased and disabled veterans are
  available for eligible students in an approved program.
3. Regents awards for children of deceased state  correction  officers
  and  state  civilian  employees of a correctional facility are available
  for eligible students in an approved program  pursuant  to  section  six
  hundred sixty-nine of this chapter.
4.   Regents   awards   for  children  of  deceased  police  officers,
  firefighters,  volunteer  firefighters  and  correction   officers   are
  available  for  eligible  students  in  an  approved program pursuant to
  section six hundred sixty-four of this chapter.
5.  Veterans  tuition  awards  are  available  for  eligible  students
  enrolled  in  approved  undergraduate  or  graduate  programs  at degree
  granting institutions and approved vocational training programs pursuant
  to section six hundred sixty-nine-a of this title.
6. Tuition awards for part-time  undergraduate  students  enrolled  in
  approved programs in degree-granting institutions.
* 7.  Tuition benefit for active members of the New York army national
  guard, New York air national guard and naval militia members enrolled in
  approved post-secondary degree programs in degree-granting institutions.
* NB Repealed September 1, 2026
9.  Memorial  scholarships  for  children,   spouses   and   financial
  dependents  of  deceased  firefighters,  volunteer  firefighters, police
  officers, peace officers, and emergency medical service workers.
10. World trade center memorial scholarships.
11. American Airlines flight 587  memorial  scholarships  pursuant  to
  section six hundred sixty-eight-f of this title.
12. Continental Airlines flight 3407 memorial scholarships pursuant to
  section six hundred sixty-eight-g of this title.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 13 - Higher Education Student Financial Aid Programs › 606 - County Awards for Professional Education in Nursing, Medicine, Dentistry, Optometry or Veterinary Medicine.

§ 606. County  awards for professional education in nursing, medicine,
  dentistry, optometry or veterinary medicine.  Each county of  the  state
  outside  New York city is hereby authorized to establish  awards in such
  manner as the local legislative body of such county may  determine,  for
  attendance  by  legal  residents of this state, who meet the citizenship
  requirements established by article fourteen of  this  chapter  for  the
  professional   study  of  nursing,  medicine,  dentistry,  optometry  or
  veterinary medicine, at approved nursing, medical, dental, optometry  or
  veterinary  medicine  schools within the United States, conditioned upon
  the promise of the scholarship holder  to  practice  nursing,  medicine,
  dentistry,  optometry  or  veterinary  medicine  in such county for such
  period as such body  may  fix,  following  his  licensing  as  a  nurse,
  physician,  dentist, optometrist or veterinarian.  Each such award shall
  entitle the recipient to such sum of money as may be fixed by such  body
  while  in  attendance at approved nursing, medical, dental, optometry or
  veterinary medicine schools in the United States during a period of  not
  to  exceed  four  years  of  professional study and for physicians for a
  further period of not to exceed two years while engaged in an internship
  or as a resident physician in  an  accredited  hospital  in  the  United
  States.  Such  awards  may,  as  an  alternative  to awards hereinbefore
  authorized,  be granted by any such county to those already so  licensed
  to  practice  nursing,  medicine,  dentistry,  optometry  or  veterinary
  medicine upon the promise of such grantees to practice within the county
  for a period of time and upon such terms and conditions  as  the  county
  may fix, provided such recipient did not receive a similar award while a
  student.    The  county shall appropriate annually such sums of money as
  may be necessary to defray the  costs  of  such  awards  and  moneys  so
  appropriated  shall  be  deemed appropriated for a lawful county purpose
  and shall be raised by the same method  as  moneys  required  for  other
  lawful county purposes.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 13 - Higher Education Student Financial Aid Programs › 607 - Required Disclosure to Matriculated Students.

§ 607. Required disclosure to matriculated students.  The commissioner
  of  education  shall  promulgate  rules  and  regulations to reflect and
  administer the intent of section 493A of the  Higher  Education  Act  of
  1965  as  last  amended  by  P.L.  94-482  concerning  institutional and
  financial aid for students.
The information, to  be  disseminated  through  but  not  limited  to,
  college  catalogues  or  bulletins,  shall  include  in addition to that
  information  cited  by  congress,  job  placement  and  graduate  school
  placement statistics where available.
All  material  required  by this section and all material contained in
  the bulletin shall be truthfully representative of the institution.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 13 - Higher Education Student Financial Aid Programs › 608 - World Trade Center Memorial Scholarships.

§  608.  World  trade center memorial scholarships. 1. Notwithstanding
  subdivisions three and five of section six  hundred  sixty-one  of  this
  title,  children,  spouses  and financial dependents of innocent victims
  who have died or have been severely and permanently disabled,  or  those
  innocent  victims who have become severely and permanently disabled as a
  direct result of an injury sustained in the impact area of the September
  eleventh, two thousand one attack on the United States of America, shall
  be eligible to receive a scholarship  in  an  annual  amount  determined
  pursuant to subdivision two of section six hundred sixty-eight-d of this
  title.  The  attack on the United States of America shall consist of the
  attack on the world trade center, the attack on  the  Pentagon  and  the
  hijackings  and  crashes  of  United  Airlines  flights  93  and 175 and
  American Airlines flights 11 and 77.
2. Awards under this section shall be payable for  each  of  not  more
  than  four  academic years of undergraduate study or five academic years
  if  a  program  normally  requires  five  years,  as  defined   by   the
  commissioner pursuant to this article.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 13 - Higher Education Student Financial Aid Programs › 608-A - Military Enhanced Recognition, Incentive and Tribute ("Merit") Scholarships.

§   608-a.   Military  enhanced  recognition,  incentive  and  tribute
  ("MERIT") scholarships. 1. Eligible persons. a.   Children, spouses  and
  financial  dependents  of members of the armed forces or state organized
  militia who at any time on or after the second day of  August,  nineteen
  hundred  ninety,  while  in  service  in  the armed forces of the United
  States, as defined by subdivision eight of section one of  the  military
  law,  or  in  a  force  of  the  state  organized militia, as defined by
  subdivision nine of section one of the military law: (i) while  a  legal
  resident  of  New  York  state,  died,  became  severely and permanently
  disabled or was classified as missing in action in a combat  theater  or
  combat zone of operations as part of military operations related to such
  military  service  or  died as a result of injury or illness suffered or
  incurred during such military service; or (ii) while a legal resident of
  New York state, died or became severely and permanently  disabled  as  a
  result  of  injury  or  illness  suffered  or  incurred  during military
  training operations in preparation for  duty  in  a  combat  theater  or
  combat zone of operations.
b.  A  member of the armed forces of the United States who: (i) became
  severely and permanently disabled as a result of service  in  the  armed
  forces  of the United States, as defined by subdivision eight of section
  one of the  military  law,  in  a  combat  theater  or  combat  zone  of
  operations  as  part  of military operations at any time on or after the
  second day of August, nineteen hundred ninety;  and  (ii)  was  a  legal
  resident of New York state at the time of military service.
c.  A  member of the armed forces of the United States who: (i) became
  severely and permanently disabled as  a  result  of  injury  or  illness
  suffered  or incurred during military training operations in preparation
  for duty in a combat theater or combat zone of operations; and (ii)  was
  a legal resident of New York state at the time of military service.
d.  A  member  of the state organized militia who: (i) became severely
  and permanently disabled as a result of injury or  illness  suffered  or
  incurred  during  active military service, as defined in subdivision six
  of section one of the military law; and (ii) was a legal resident of New
  York state at the time of military service.
2. Awards under this section shall be payable for  each  of  not  more
  than  four  academic  years  of  undergraduate  study or five years if a
  program normally requires five years, as  defined  by  the  commissioner
  pursuant to this article.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 13 - Higher Education Student Financial Aid Programs › 609 - Tuition, Aid and Placement Report.

§  609.  Tuition,  aid  and  placement  report.  In  academic year two
  thousand sixteen--two thousand seventeen, all non-public institutions of
  higher  education,  recognized  and  approved  by  the  regents  of  the
  university  of  the  state  of New York, which provide a course of study
  leading to the granting of a four year post-secondary degree or diploma,
  except for a non-public degree-granting institution that does not  offer
  a  program  of  study  that  leads  to  a  baccalaureate degree, or at a
  registered not-for-profit business school qualified  for  tax  exemption
  under  section 501(c)(3) of the internal revenue code for federal income
  tax purposes that does not offer a program of  study  that  leads  to  a
  baccalaureate  degree, shall report to the senate and assembly chairs of
  the higher education committees  on  or  before  August  fifteenth,  two
  thousand  sixteen,  on the following: factors that drive cost increases;
  tuition trends for the past six years and percentage  of  year  to  year
  increases;  total  cost of fees; if the institution has an endowment and
  the amount of such endowment; the average  institutional  financial  aid
  package  by  income  bracket  as  defined  by  the  National  Center for
  Education Statistics' Integrated Post-Secondary Education  Data  System;
  graduation  rates  for  four, five and six years; enrollment trends over
  the past six years; the amount spent to educate students  per  FTE;  the
  percentage of students who are TAP and Pell eligible; administrative and
  operating costs and the percentage of those costs funded by tuition; and
  cost saving measures implemented over the past six years, if any.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 13-A - Liberty Scholarships › 611 - Liberty Scholarship Advisory Committee.

§ 611. Liberty  scholarship  advisory  committee.    There  is  hereby
  created a liberty scholarship advisory committee, which shall consist of
  eleven persons appointed by the governor, two of whom shall be upon  the
  recommendation  of  the  president pro tem of the senate and two of whom
  shall be upon the recommendation of the speaker of the assembly.    Such
  members  shall  serve at the pleasure of the governor, except that those
  recommended by other authorities shall serve at  the  pleasure  of  such
  recommending  authorities,  and  shall  include,  but not be limited to,
  representatives of secondary schools, business and industry,  labor  and
  nonprofit  or  voluntary  organizations.  In  addition  to  such  eleven
  members, the president of the higher education services corporation, the
  commissioner of education, the chancellor of the state university of New
  York, the chancellor  of  the  city  university  of  New  York  and  the
  president  of  the  commission  of independent colleges and universities
  shall serve on the committee as ex-officio members. The  governor  shall
  designate  one member to serve as chairperson of the committee. No later
  than April first, nineteen hundred  eighty-nine,  such  committee  shall
  prepare  a  plan that (i) identifies counseling and support services for
  students available from  institutions  of  higher  education,  secondary
  schools,  government  agencies,  business and industry, labor, nonprofit
  organizations and volunteers  and  (ii)  proposes  ways  in  which  such
  counseling and support services can be coordinated to promote continuity
  of  counseling  and  support.  In addition, the advisory committee shall
  make recommendations as to the implementation of  such  plan  and  shall
  periodically   report  on  the  degree  to  which  such  plan  has  been
  successfully  implemented.   The   president,   commissioner   and   the
  chancellors of the public universities shall make available personnel to
  act  as  staff  for  the  committee.  The members of the committee shall
  receive no compensation for their services, but  shall  be  entitled  to
  reimbursement  for  their  actual and necessary expenses incurred in the
  performance of their duties.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 13-B - Student Lending Accountability, Transparency and Enforcement Act › 621 - Prohibition of Gifts Made by Lending Institutions to Covered Institutions and Their Employees.

§  621.  Prohibition  of gifts made by lending institutions to covered
  institutions and their employees. 1.  A  lending  institution  may  not,
  directly  or  indirectly,  offer  or  provide  any  gift  to  a  covered
  institution or a covered  institution  employee,  in  exchange  for  any
  advantage  or consideration provided to such lending institution related
  to its educational loan activities.
2. A lending institution may not engage  in  revenue  sharing  with  a
  covered institution.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 13-B - Student Lending Accountability, Transparency and Enforcement Act › 622 - Prohibition of Receipt of Gifts by Covered Institutions.

§  622.  Prohibition of receipt of gifts by covered institutions. 1. A
  covered institution may not, directly or indirectly, solicit, accept  or
  receive any gift from or on behalf of a lending institution, in exchange
  for  any advantage or consideration provided to such lending institution
  related to its educational loan activities.
2. A covered institution may not engage  in  revenue  sharing  with  a
  lending institution.
2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 13-B - Student Lending Accountability, Transparency and Enforcement Act › 623 - Prohibition of Receipt of Gifts by Covered Institution Employees.

§  623.  Prohibition  of  receipt  of  gifts  by  covered  institution
  employees.   1. A covered institution  shall  require  that  no  covered
  institution  employee  on his or her own behalf or on behalf of another,
  directly or indirectly, solicits, accepts or receives any gift  from  or
  on  behalf  of  a  lending institution. Nothing in this section shall be
  construed as prohibiting a covered institution employee from  conducting
  business  with  a  lending  institution,  provided that such business is
  unrelated in any manner whatsoever to a covered institution.
2. A covered institution employee, on his or  her  own  behalf  or  on
  behalf  of  another, shall not directly or indirectly solicit, accept or
  receive any gift from or on behalf of a lending institution. Nothing  in
  this  section  shall  be  construed as prohibiting a covered institution
  employee from conducting business with any lending institution, provided
  that such business is  unrelated  in  any  manner  whatsoever  with  the
  covered institution.
3.  Covered  institution  employees shall report to the department any
  instance of a lending institution attempting to  give  a  gift  to  such
  covered institution employees.