Bill Text: NY A05803 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Makes registration with the selective service system by persons required to do so by federal law a precondition for the award of state-sponsored financial aid for higher education; directs the department of education and the New York state higher education services corporation to jointly promulgate rules to implement this requirement; explicitly exempts females as long as they are not required to register with the selective service system under federal law; directs educational institutions to inform male applicants of such requirement.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-04-20 - enacting clause stricken [A05803 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-A05803-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         5803
                              2011-2012 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                     March 1, 2011
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       Introduced  by M. of A. TOWNS -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. BOYLAND,
         CALHOUN -- read once and referred to the Committee on Higher Education
       AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to  fostering  compliance
         with selective service system registration requirements
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Article 13 of the education law is amended by adding a  new
    2  section 609 to read as follows:
    3    S  609. COMPLIANCE WITH SELECTIVE SERVICE ACT REQUIRED.  1. "STATEMENT
    4  OF SELECTIVE SERVICE STATUS" MEANS A STATEMENT CERTIFYING THAT:
    5    (A) THE INDIVIDUAL FILING THE STATEMENT IS REGISTERED WITH THE  SELEC-
    6  TIVE  SERVICE  SYSTEM  IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE MILITARY SELECTIVE SERVICE
    7  ACT, 50 U.S.C. APP. S 453; OR
    8    (B) THE INDIVIDUAL FILING THE STATEMENT IS NOT  REQUIRED  TO  REGISTER
    9  WITH THE SELECTIVE SERVICE SYSTEM BECAUSE THE INDIVIDUAL IS:
   10    (1) UNDER EIGHTEEN YEARS OF AGE;
   11    (2)  IN  THE  ARMED  FORCES OF THE UNITED STATES ON ACTIVE DUTY, OTHER
   12  THAN IN A RESERVE OR NATIONAL GUARD UNIT;
   13    (3) NEITHER A UNITED STATES CITIZEN NOR A RESIDENT ALIEN;
   14    (4) A PERMANENT RESIDENT OF THE TRUST TERRITORY OF THE PACIFIC ISLANDS
   15  OR THE NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS; OR
   16    (5) EXCUSED FROM REGISTRATION FOR SOME OTHER REASON PROVIDED BY FEDER-
   17  AL LAW AND THAT REASON IS INCLUDED IN THE FILED STATEMENT.
   18    2. FEMALES ARE NOT REQUIRED TO FILE A STATEMENT AS LONG AS THE FEDERAL
   19  MILITARY SELECTIVE SERVICE ACT EXCLUDES THEM  FROM  THE  REQUIREMENT  TO
   20  REGISTER.
   21    3.  A  MALE  OVER EIGHTEEN YEARS OF AGE IS NOT ELIGIBLE TO RECEIVE ANY
   22  LOAN, GRANT, SCHOLARSHIP OR OTHER FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE PURSUANT TO  THIS
   23  ARTICLE  OR ARTICLE THIRTEEN-A, FOURTEEN OR FOURTEEN-A OF THIS TITLE FOR
   24  EDUCATIONAL EXPENSES THAT IS PARTIALLY OR FULLY FUNDED OR GUARANTEED  OR
   25  ADMINISTERED  BY  THE  STATE OR A STATE AGENCY UNLESS THE INDIVIDUAL HAS
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD09539-01-1
       A. 5803                             2
    1  FILED A STATEMENT OF SELECTIVE SERVICE STATUS WITH THE COLLEGE OR  VOCA-
    2  TIONAL INSTITUTION IN WHICH THE INDIVIDUAL PLANS TO ENROLL.
    3    4.  THE  DEPARTMENT  AND THE PRESIDENT SHALL JOINTLY, BY RULE, SPECIFY
    4  THE FORM OF STATEMENTS OF SELECTIVE SERVICE STATUS  AND  THE  SUPPORTING
    5  DOCUMENTS TO BE FILED TO BE IN COMPLIANCE WITH THIS SECTION. THE DEPART-
    6  MENT  AND  THE  PRESIDENT SHALL ALSO PROVIDE FOR VERIFICATION OF COMPLI-
    7  ANCE. THE DEPARTMENT AND THE PRESIDENT SHALL JOINTLY DISTRIBUTE TO  EACH
    8  COLLEGE  OR VOCATIONAL INSTITUTION A COPY OF ALL RULES PROMULGATED UNDER
    9  THIS SECTION.  EACH COLLEGE AND POST-SECONDARY VOCATIONAL  SCHOOL  SHALL
   10  MAKE  A REASONABLE EFFORT TO INFORM MALE CANDIDATES FOR ENROLLMENT ABOUT
   11  THE SELECTIVE SERVICE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENT.
   12    S 2. This act shall take effect on the first of July  next  succeeding
   13  the  date on which it shall have become a law; provided that the commis-
   14  sioner of education and the president  of  the  New  York  state  higher
   15  education  services corporation are authorized to jointly promulgate any
   16  and all rules and regulations and take any other measures  necessary  to
   17  implement this act on its effective date on or before such date.