Permits the commissioner of education to include graduate programs as programs eligible for approval under the state tuition assistance program.
Expands eligibility for the tuition assistance program by restoring eligibility to graduate students; makes optional semesters, quarters or terms eligible for awards.
Includes New York guard members to the recruitment incentive and retention program for members of the New York state organized militia; permits tuition benefits for post-graduate study.
Expands eligibility under the veterans tuition awards program to include recipients of the award of the Purple Heart.
Requires utilities accept public assistance payments including payments from the home energy assistance programs and emergency funding programs.
Requires utilities accept public assistance payments including payments from the home energy assistance programs and emergency funding programs.
Public Assistance Programs Eligibility
Expands eligibility for the low interest rate program of the state of New York mortgage agency to certain graduates of post secondary programs or comparable apprenticeship and workforce training programs for the purchase of certain property.
Credit proposal for graduates of aerospace and aviation-related educational programs and employers of program graduates
Exempts school district providers of special services or programs for preschool students with disabilities from having to obtain program approval from the commissioner of education.