§ 667-a. Supplemental tuition assistance program. 1. Legislative\nintent. The legislature hereby finds that to further the goal of equal\nopportunity it is necessary to assure the availability of supplemental\nassistance for the successful remediation of educationally disadvantaged\nstudents in addition to assistance currently available under existing\nstatute for students with financial need. Accordingly, tuition\nassistance shall be extended to students whose need for remediation\nprecludes them from fulfilling the program pursuit and academic progress\nrequirements of the tuition assistance program.\n 2. Operation.
(a)The supplemental tuition assistance program shall\nbe governed by all law, rules and regulations pertaining to the tuition\nassistance program provided however that,
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§ 667-a. Supplemental tuition assistance program. 1. Legislative\nintent. The legislature hereby finds that to further the goal of equal\nopportunity it is necessary to assure the availability of supplemental\nassistance for the successful remediation of educationally disadvantaged\nstudents in addition to assistance currently available under existing\nstatute for students with financial need. Accordingly, tuition\nassistance shall be extended to students whose need for remediation\nprecludes them from fulfilling the program pursuit and academic progress\nrequirements of the tuition assistance program.\n 2. Operation. (a) The supplemental tuition assistance program shall\nbe governed by all law, rules and regulations pertaining to the tuition\nassistance program provided however that, notwithstanding any law, rule\nand regulation to the contrary, eligibility for supplemental tuition\nassistance program awards shall be limited to any undergraduate student\nreceiving aid under this article for the first time during school year\nnineteen hundred ninety-five--nineteen hundred ninety-six or thereafter\nwho meets both of the following conditions:\n (i) The student shall not be enrolled in the higher education\nopportunity program, educational opportunity program, the Percy Ellis\nSutton search for education, elevation and knowledge program or the\ncollege discovery program.\n (ii) The student must be accepted into an institution of higher\neducation and be enrolled in an approved non-credit bearing remediation\nprogram in the summer immediately preceding and/or immediately following\nthe initial year of matriculated study.\n (b) Students who meet the conditions described in paragraph (a) of\nthis subdivision shall be eligible to receive up to one quarter of the\nannual tuition assistance program award for each session, up to two\nsessions, of summer remediation in addition to those tuition assistance\nprogram awards specified in subdivision two of section six hundred\nsixty-seven of this article.\n