Bill Text: NY S01417 | 2009-2010 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Changes the eligibility dates for a military service recognition scholarship to include certain conflicts.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2010-03-17 - referred to higher education [S01417 Detail]
Download: New_York-2009-S01417-Amended.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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1417--A
2009-2010 Regular Sessions
I N S E N A T E
January 30, 2009
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Introduced by Sen. MAZIARZ -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Higher Education --
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 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 OF DECEMBER, NINETEEN HUNDRED EIGHTY-SEV-
9 EN OR on or after the second day of August, nineteen hundred ninety,
10 while in service in the armed forces of the United States, as defined by
11 subdivision eight of section one of the military law or in a force of
12 the state organized militia, as defined in subdivision nine of section
13 one of the military law: (i) while a legal resident of New York state,
14 died, became severely and permanently disabled or was classified as
15 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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