N.Y. Education Law § 667-a: Supplemental tuition assistance program

§ 667-a. Supplemental tuition assistance program. 1. Legislative

intent. The legislature hereby finds that to further the goal of equal

opportunity it is necessary to assure the availability of supplemental

assistance for the successful remediation of educationally disadvantaged

students in addition to assistance currently available under existing

statute for students with financial need. Accordingly, tuition

assistance shall be extended to students whose need for remediation

precludes them from fulfilling the program pursuit and academic progress

requirements of the tuition assistance program.

2. Operation. (a) The supplemental tuition assistance program shall

be governed by all law, rules and regulations pertaining to the tuition

assistance program provided however that, notwithstanding any law, rule

and regulation to the contrary, eligibility for supplemental tuition

assistance program awards shall be limited to any undergraduate student

receiving aid under this article for the first time during school year

nineteen hundred ninety-five--nineteen hundred ninety-six or thereafter

who meets both of the following conditions:

(i) The student shall not be enrolled in the higher education

opportunity program, educational opportunity program, the Percy Ellis

Sutton search for education, elevation and knowledge program or the

college discovery program.

(ii) The student must be accepted into an institution of higher

education and be enrolled in an approved non-credit bearing remediation

program in the summer immediately preceding and/or immediately following

the initial year of matriculated study.

(b) Students who meet the conditions described in paragraph (a) of

this subdivision shall be eligible to receive up to one quarter of the

annual tuition assistance program award for each session, up to two

sessions, of summer remediation in addition to those tuition assistance

program awards specified in subdivision two of section six hundred

sixty-seven of this article.