Bill Text: NY S03471 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Establishes the veteran career assistance program within the SUNY and CUNY systems to provide veterans discharged under honorable conditions with assistance in resume writing and employment placement services.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-2)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2020-02-26 - referred to higher education [S03471 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-S03471-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 3471--A 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN SENATE February 7, 2019 ___________ Introduced by Sen. BROOKS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Veterans, Homeland Securi- ty and Military Affairs -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to the establishment of a veteran career assistance program within the SUNY and CUNY systems The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The executive law is amended by adding a new section 353-b 2 to read as follows: 3 § 353-b. Veteran career assistance. The director, together with the 4 chancellor of the state university of New York and the chancellor of the 5 city university of New York, shall establish a veteran career assistance 6 program. Such program shall provide discharged under honorable condi- 7 tions veterans with assistance in resume writing and employment place- 8 ment services. The program shall be developed and maintained with 9 resources already available to the division and the university systems. 10 The director shall report to the legislature on an annual basis, the 11 number of veterans utilizing the career assistance program. 12 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after 13 it shall have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD05495-02-9