Bill Text: NY A03856 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Changes the eligibility dates for a military service recognition scholarship to include certain conflicts beginning on and after June 1, 1982.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to higher education [A03856 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A03856-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3856
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 31, 2019
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  MAGNARELLI  -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Higher Education
        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to changing the eligibil-
          ity dates for a military service recognition  scholarship  to  include
          the conflicts that occurred after June 1, 1982
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Paragraph a of subdivision 1 of section 668-e of the educa-
     2  tion law, as added by chapter 106 of the laws of  2003,  is  amended  to
     3  read as follows:
     4    a.  Notwithstanding subdivisions three and five of section six hundred
     5  sixty-one of this title, children, spouses and financial dependents of a
     6  member of the armed forces of the United States or state organized mili-
     7  tia who at any time on or after the  [second  day  of  August,  nineteen
     8  hundred  ninety]  first  of  June, nineteen hundred eighty-two, while in
     9  service in the armed forces of the United States, as defined by subdivi-
    10  sion eight of section one of the military law or in a force of the state
    11  organized militia, as defined in subdivision nine of section one of  the
    12  military law: (i) while a legal resident of New York state, died, became
    13  severely and permanently disabled or was classified as missing in action
    14  in  a  combat  theater  or combat zone of operations as part of military
    15  operations, or died as  a  result  of  injury  or  illness  suffered  or
    16  incurred during such military service; or (ii) while a legal resident of
    17  New  York  state,  died or became severely and permanently disabled as a
    18  result of injury or illness suffered or incurred during military  train-
    19  ing  operations  in  preparation  for duty in a combat theater or combat
    20  zone of operations.
    21    § 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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