Bill Text: NY S09866 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Enacts the "Technical Sergeant Joseph G. Lemm tuition benefit act" to allow members of the New York state organized militia to receive tuition benefits for certain post-secondary degree programs.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-06-12 - REFERRED TO RULES [S09866 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S09866-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          9866

                    IN SENATE

                                      June 12, 2024
                                       ___________

        Introduced by Sen. SEPULVEDA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules

        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to tuition benefit incen-
          tives for members of the New York state organized militia

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may  be  cited  as
     2  the "Technical Sergeant Joseph G. Lemm tuition benefit act".
     3    §  2.  Subdivisions  5 and 7 of section 669-b of the education law, as
     4  added by chapter 268 of the  laws  of  1996,  are  amended  to  read  as
     5  follows:
     6    5.  Any  active  member  who  currently  possesses  a  [baccalaureate]
     7  master's degree  or  higher  is  ineligible  for  participation  in  the
     8  recruitment incentive program provided by this section.
     9    7. Upon the recipient's attainment of a [baccalaureate] post-secondary
    10  degree  or diploma or cessation of status as an active member, whichever
    11  occurs first, the benefit provided by this section shall  be  discontin-
    12  ued.  The  tuition  benefit provided by this section may be suspended at
    13  the direction of the division of military and naval affairs for a recip-
    14  ient's failure to maintain good military standing as an  active  member,
    15  for  the failure to maintain good academic progress and program pursuit,
    16  or for the failure to maintain sufficient academic  standing  to  retain
    17  eligibility  for  any  other  financial  assistance the recipient may be
    18  receiving.
    19    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately; provided,  however,  that
    20  the amendments to subdivisions 5 and 7 of section 669-b of the education
    21  law  made by section two of this act shall not affect the repeal of such
    22  section and shall be deemed repealed therewith.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD15857-01-4