Bill Text: NY A03179 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Allows the granting of academic credit at state or city operated institutions to veterans.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-02-09 - print number 3179b [A03179 Detail]

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3179
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 27, 2017
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  DenDEKKER  --  read once and referred to the
          Committee on Higher Education
        AN ACT to amend the education law,  in  relation  to  granting  academic
          credit  at  state operated institutions of the state university of New
          York and the senior colleges of the city university  of  New  York  to
          veterans
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. The education law is amended by adding a new section  669-h
     2  to read as follows:
     3    §  669-h. Course credit for veterans. 1. For purposes of this section,
     4  the term "veteran" means a resident of this state, who has served in the
     5  active military or naval service of the United States, in a combat thea-
     6  ter or combat zone of operations, as part of military operations related
     7  to such military service, and who has been released from such service by
     8  means of an honorable discharge, or  who  has  been  furloughed  to  the
     9  reserve, or has resumed service back in the New York State Army National
    10  Guard, New York Air National Guard, or New York Naval Militia.
    11    2. Every veteran who is enrolled on a full-time basis as an undergrad-
    12  uate  student  in  good  standing,  at  an  institution within the state
    13  university system or the city university system, shall upon  application
    14  be granted academic credits without limitation towards his or her degree
    15  for  completion  of  courses  that  were part of such veteran's military
    16  training or service if the completed courses meet the standards  of  the
    17  American  council  on  education  or  its equivalent for the awarding of
    18  academic credits. No fee, tuition or  other  charge  shall  be  assessed
    19  against  a  veteran  who  qualifies  for  such  credit  pursuant to this
    20  section.
    21    3. The boards of trustees of the state university and the city univer-
    22  sity of New York shall adopt such procedures as are necessary  to  fully
    23  implement the provisions of this section.
    24    §  2.  This act shall take effect on the first of July next succeeding
    25  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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