Bill Text: NY A02081 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Authorizes and directs the commissioner of education to develop a program for veterans who served on or after January 1, 1973 to receive high school diplomas.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-01-08 - referred to education [A02081 Detail]
Download: New_York-2013-A02081-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 2081 2013-2014 Regular Sessions I N A S S E M B L Y (PREFILED) January 9, 2013 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. GOLDFEDER -- read once and referred to the Committee on Education AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to authorizing and directing the commissioner of education to develop a program for certain veterans to receive high school diplomas THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: 1 Section 1. Section 305 of the education law is amended by adding a new 2 subdivision 29-c to read as follows: 3 29-C. THE COMMISSIONER SHALL DEVELOP A PROGRAM WHEREBY ANY VETERAN OF 4 THE ARMED FORCES WHO SERVED ON OR AFTER JANUARY FIRST, NINETEEN HUNDRED 5 SEVENTY-THREE AND WHO WAS UNABLE, FOR ANY REASON, TO COMPLETE A SECOND- 6 ARY EDUCATION, MAY BE AWARDED A HIGH SCHOOL DIPLOMA BASED ON KNOWLEDGE 7 AND EXPERIENCE GAINED WHILE IN SERVICE. 8 S 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD00025-01-3