Bill Text: NY A09076 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Redefines military service to include the United States Merchant Marine Academy.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Passed) 2020-11-27 - SIGNED CHAP.300 [A09076 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A09076-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          9076

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 15, 2020
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. THIELE -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Education

        AN  ACT  to  amend the education law, in relation to redefining military
          service

          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 2018-d of the
     2  education law, as added by chapter 489 of the laws of 2019,  is  amended
     3  to read as follows:
     4    (a)  "Military service" means the military service of the state, or of
     5  the United States, including the army, navy, marine  corps,  air  force,
     6  coast  guard,  merchant marine and all components thereof, and the coast
     7  and geodetic survey, the public health service, the national guard  when
     8  in the service of the United States pursuant to call as provided by law,
     9  and  the  cadets  or  midshipmen  of the United States Military Academy,
    10  United States Naval Academy, United States  Air  Force  Academy,  United
    11  States Merchant Marine Academy and United States Coast Guard Academy.
    12    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.






         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14601-01-9
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