Bill Text: NY A01761 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced
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 14-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-01-04 - referred to higher education [A01761 Detail]
Download: New_York-2011-A01761-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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1761
2011-2012 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
January 11, 2011
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Introduced by M. of A. NOLAN, COOK, GUNTHER, MAISEL, MARKEY, PERRY,
PHEFFER, SCHROEDER, ZEBROWSKI -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. GOTT-
FRIED, JACOBS, McENENY, SCARBOROUGH, WEISENBERG -- read once and
referred to the Committee on Higher Education
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
21 tuition assistance program award pursuant to section six hundred sixty-
22 seven of this subpart.
23 S 3. This act shall take effect on the first of September next
24 succeeding the date on which it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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