N.Y. Education Law § 664: Concurrent awards

§ 664. Concurrent awards. 1. a. No person shall receive benefits

concurrently from more than one academic performance award under this

chapter, except for the regents scholarship in Cornell university. Nor

shall any person receive benefits from an academic performance award

under this chapter concurrently with any scholarship, grant, or

educational assistance under federal law that, in the judgment of the

commissioner would duplicate the purpose of such academic performance

award, except United States war orphan educational benefits or benefits

under the veterans' readjustment benefits act of nineteen hundred

sixty-six.

b. A person may receive concurrently a tuition assistance program

award, a regents award for children of deceased and disabled veterans

and a regents award for children of deceased police officers,

firefighters and volunteer firefighters, and correction officers of the

state or any political subdivision thereof, and may also receive

benefits under one or all of these awards concurrently with an academic

performance award or federal or other awards. However, in the case of

the regents awards for children of deceased state correction officers

and state civilian employees of a correctional facility received

pursuant to the provisions of section six hundred sixty-nine of this

article, no person shall receive benefits under this award concurrently

with any other general or academic performance award under this chapter,

or with any scholarship, grant, or educational assistance under federal

law that, in the judgment of the commissioner would duplicate the

purposes of such award.

c. A person may receive concurrently a tuition assistance award and a

scholarship for academic achievement pursuant to subdivision eighteen of

section three hundred fifty-five of this chapter.

2. Where concurrent use of two or more awards is not permitted under

this section, a student qualifying for two or more awards must choose

which award he wishes to accept.

3. The board shall promulgate, subject to the approval of the regents,

rules and regulations which shall govern the use of state awards and

loans concurrently with awards and loans granted to a student by any

other political entity or subdivision, institute, corporation, agency,

or foundation.