Bill Text: NY A08411 | 2009-2010 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Expands the veterans tuition awards program to include all veterans who were discharged under honorable conditions who served in the armed forces after February 28, 1961.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 26-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-02-22 - print number 8411a [A08411 Detail]

Download: New_York-2009-A08411-Amended.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                        8411--A
                              2009-2010 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                     May 19, 2009
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       Introduced  by  M. of A. NOLAN, CASTRO, COLTON, COOK, DenDEKKER, FIELDS,
         GUNTHER, KOON, LANCMAN,  MAISEL,  MARKEY,  PERRY,  PHEFFER,  ROBINSON,
         SCHROEDER,  SPANO, STIRPE, TITONE, TOWNS, ZEBROWSKI -- Multi-Sponsored
         by -- M. of A.  BARRON, GOTTFRIED, JACOBS, McENENY, SCARBOROUGH, SWEE-
         NEY, WEISENBERG -- read once and referred to the Committee  on  Higher
         Education  --  recommitted  to  the  Committee  on Higher Education in
         accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged,  bill
         amended,  ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
         tee
       AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to the  veterans  tuition
         awards program
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Paragraph d of subdivision 1 of section 669-a of the educa-
    2  tion law, as added by section 2 of part N of chapter 57 of the  laws  of
    3  2008, is amended to read as follows:
    4    d. "Other eligible [combat] veteran" means: an individual who (i) is a
    5  resident  of  this  state, (ii) served in the armed forces of the United
    6  States [in] DURING hostilities  that  occurred  after  February  twenty-
    7  eighth, nineteen hundred sixty-one, [as evidenced by their receipt of an
    8  Armed  Forces  Expeditionary  Medal, Navy Expeditionary Medal, or Marine
    9  Corps Expeditionary Medal,] and (iii)  was  discharged  under  honorable
   10  conditions,  including but not limited to honorable discharge, discharge
   11  under honorable conditions, or general discharge.
   12    S 2. Paragraph a of subdivision 2 of section 669-a  of  the  education
   13  law,  as  amended  by  section  3 of part N of chapter 57 of the laws of
   14  2008, is amended to read as follows:
   15    a. Tuition awards are available for all Vietnam, Persian Gulf, Afghan-
   16  istan and other eligible [combat] veterans, as  defined  in  subdivision
   17  one of this section, who are enrolled, pursuant to paragraph a of subdi-
   18  vision  four  of section six hundred sixty-one of this part, in approved
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD10828-03-0
       A. 8411--A                          2
    1  undergraduate or graduate programs at degree  granting  institutions  or
    2  enrolled  in  approved  vocational training programs and who apply for a
    3  tuition assistance program award pursuant to section six hundred  sixty-
    4  seven of this subpart.
    5    S  3.  This  act  shall  take  effect  on  the first of September next
    6  succeeding the date on which it shall have become a law.