The MTA board will make a decision on the fate of free student MetroCards at its June 23 meeting, officials said yesterday.

The date puts pressure on stalled Albany lawmakers to act — and soon.

Any changes to the current program — which provides about 500,000 students with free rides — would require agency management to reprogram every turnstile in the system, the MTA’s government-affairs director, Hilary Ring, told the City Council at a hearing.

It usually takes about six to eight weeks to recalibrate the system.

“Once we get to July, the ability to change becomes limited,” Ring said, because students return to school in September.

The MTA says that it will cost $214 million a year to run the program and that the funding must come from the government.