Bill Text: NY A03749 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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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) 2016-11-10 - enacting clause stricken [A03749 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A03749-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         3749
                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   January 27, 2015
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       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.
                                                                  LBD06369-01-5