Bill Text: NY S01660 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Authorizes and directs the commissioner of education to develop a program for veterans who served on active duty to receive high school diplomas.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-1)
Status: (Passed) 2019-11-11 - signed chap.477 [S01660 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-S01660-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1660--A Cal. No. 313 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN SENATE January 15, 2019 ___________ Introduced by Sens. SKOUFIS, FELDER, GOUNARDES, MONTGOMERY, SAVINO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Education -- reported favorably from said committee, ordered to first and second report, ordered to a third reading, amended and ordered reprinted, retaining its place in the order of third reading AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to authorizing and directing the commissioner of education to develop a program for certain veterans to receive high school diplomas The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 305 of the education law is amended by adding a new 2 subdivision 29-c to read as follows: 3 29-c. The commissioner shall develop a program whereby any veteran of 4 the armed forces who has served on active duty in the United States 5 Armed Forces, and who was unable, for any reason, to complete a second- 6 ary education, may be awarded a high school diploma based on knowledge 7 and experience gained while in service. 8 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD01118-03-9
