Bill Text: NY S00255 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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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: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 8-1)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2018-05-15 - referred to higher education [S00255 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S00255-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           255
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                       (Prefiled)
                                     January 4, 2017
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        Introduced  by  Sens.  ORTT,  AKSHAR,  CROCI, GALLIVAN, RITCHIE, SERINO,
          VALESKY, YOUNG -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed  to
          be committed to the Committee on Veterans, Homeland Security and Mili-
          tary Affairs
        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    § 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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