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Home/Bills/A 4131New York · 2025–2026 Legislative Session
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A 4131: Conforms the New York state college choice tuition savings program to the federal qualified tuition program so as to include savings for grades kindergarten through 12.

New York · Assembly · 2025–2026 Legislative Session · last verified January 8, 2026

What A 4131 does, verified January 8, 2026

The bill aims to conform the New York State College Choice Tuition Savings Program to federal law. The program will now include apprenticeship programs in its definition of an eligible educational institution. This change will allow the program to align with federal regulations. The updated program will take effect immediately.

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5GovernorPending
6ChapteredPending
Last action: referred to higher education (2026-01-07)Alert me
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Jan. 07, 2026referred to higher education
Jan. 31, 2025referred to higher education
Latest bill textIntroduced version, January 31, 2025 · 208 words
  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 4131 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY January 31, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. REILLY -- read once and referred to the Committee on Higher Education AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to conforming the New York state college choice tuition savings program to federal law relating to qualified tuition programs The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 5 of section 695-b of the education law, as 2 amended by section 1 of part H of chapter 56 of the laws of 2022, is 3 amended to read as follows: 4 5. "Eligible educational institution" shall mean (a) [any institution 5 of higher education defined as] an eligible educational institution as 6 defined in section 529(e)(5) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as 7 amended, or (b) any apprenticeship program described in section 8 529(c)(8) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended. 9 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD03651-01-5 
Text of A 4131 as introduced, from the official record. Connect Plus keeps every version and highlights what changed.Compare versions
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