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

New York Senate Bill 148 (Prior Session Legislation)

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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 (Republican 1-0)

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

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                          148
                              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
       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 to December 31, 1987
         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 FIRST DAY OF JUNE, NINETEEN  HUNDRED
    8  EIGHTY-TWO  TO THE THIRTY-FIRST DAY OF DECEMBER, NINETEEN HUNDRED EIGHT-
    9  Y-SEVEN OR on or after the second day of August, nineteen hundred  nine-
   10  ty,  while  in  service  in  the  armed  forces of the United States, as
   11  defined by subdivision eight of section one of the military law or in  a
   12  force  of the state organized militia, as defined in subdivision nine of
   13  section one of the military law: (i) while a legal resident of New  York
   14  state,  died, became severely and permanently disabled or was classified
   15  as missing in action in a combat theater or combat zone of operations as
   16  part of military operations, or died as a result of  injury  or  illness
   17  suffered or incurred during such military service; or (ii) while a legal
   18  resident  of  New  York  state,  died or became severely and permanently
   19  disabled as a result of injury or illness suffered  or  incurred  during
   20  military training operations in preparation for duty in a combat theater
   21  or combat zone of operations.
   22    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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