Bill Text: NY S00148 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Senate Bill 148 (Prior Session Legislation)

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 (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2012-06-05 - REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE [S00148 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-S00148-Amended.html

                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                        148--A
                              2011-2012 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                      (PREFILED)
                                    January 5, 2011
                                      ___________
       Introduced  by  Sen. MAZIARZ -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
         printed to be committed  to  the  Committee  on  Higher  Education  --
         reported  favorably from said committee and committed to the Committee
         on Finance -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as
         amended and recommitted to said committee
       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    S 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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