Bill Text: NY S04054 | 2009-2010 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Senate Bill 4054 (Prior Session Legislation)

Amended

Bill Title: Expands the veterans tuition awards program to include all veterans who were discharged under honorable conditions who served in the armed forces after February 28, 1961.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-02-11 - PRINT NUMBER 4054A [S04054 Detail]

Download: New_York-2009-S04054-Amended.html

                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                        4054--A
                              2009-2010 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                     April 8, 2009
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       Introduced  by  Sen. ADDABBO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
         printed to be committed to the Committee on Veterans, Homeland Securi-
         ty and Military Affairs -- recommitted to the Committee  on  Veterans,
         Homeland  Security and Military Affairs in accordance with Senate Rule
         6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted  as
         amended and recommitted to said committee
       AN  ACT  to amend the education law, in relation to the veterans tuition
         awards program
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Paragraph d of subdivision 1 of section 669-a of the educa-
    2  tion  law,  as added by section 2 of part N of chapter 57 of the laws of
    3  2008, is amended to read as follows:
    4    d. "Other eligible [combat] veteran" means: an individual who (i) is a
    5  resident of this state, (ii) served in the armed forces  of  the  United
    6  States  [in]  DURING  hostilities  that  occurred after February twenty-
    7  eighth, nineteen hundred sixty-one, [as evidenced by their receipt of an
    8  Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal, Navy Expeditionary  Medal,  or  Marine
    9  Corps  Expeditionary  Medal,]  and  (iii) was discharged under honorable
   10  conditions, including but not limited to honorable discharge,  discharge
   11  under honorable conditions, or general discharge.
   12    S  2.  Paragraph  a of subdivision 2 of section 669-a of the education
   13  law, as amended by section 3 of part N of chapter  57  of  the  laws  of
   14  2008, is amended to read as follows:
   15    a. Tuition awards are available for all Vietnam, Persian Gulf, Afghan-
   16  istan  and  other  eligible [combat] veterans, as defined in subdivision
   17  one of this section, who are enrolled, pursuant to paragraph a of subdi-
   18  vision four of section six hundred sixty-one of this part,  in  approved
   19  undergraduate  or  graduate  programs at degree granting institutions or
   20  enrolled in approved vocational training programs and who  apply  for  a
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD10828-02-0
       S. 4054--A                          2
    1  tuition  assistance program award pursuant to section six hundred sixty-
    2  seven of this subpart.
    3    S  3.  This  act  shall  take  effect  on  the first of September next
    4  succeeding the date on which it shall have become a law.