Bill Text: NY A03790 | 2017-2018 | 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 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - referred to education [A03790 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A03790-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3790
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 30, 2017
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        Introduced  by M. of A. ROZIC -- 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    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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