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

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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]

Download: New_York-2017-A03179-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         3179--B
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 27, 2017
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        Introduced  by  M.  of A. DenDEKKER, COLTON -- read once and referred to
          the Committee  on  Higher  Education  --  committee  discharged,  bill
          amended,  ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
          tee -- recommitted to the Committee on Higher Education in  accordance
          with  Assembly  Rule  3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill amended,
          ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
        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-i
     2  to read as follows:
     3    §  669-i. 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, and who has  been
     6  released  from  such  service by means of an honorable discharge, or who
     7  has been furloughed to the reserve, or has resumed service back  in  the
     8  New  York State Army National Guard, New York Air National Guard, or New
     9  York Naval Militia.
    10    2. Every veteran who is enrolled on a full-time basis as an undergrad-
    11  uate student in good  standing,  at  an  institution  within  the  state
    12  university  system or the city university system, shall upon application
    13  be granted academic credits without limitation towards his or her degree
    14  for completion of courses that were  part  of  such  veteran's  military
    15  training  or  service if the completed courses meet the standards of the
    16  American council on education or its  equivalent  for  the  awarding  of
    17  academic  credits.  No  fee,  tuition  or other charge shall be assessed
    18  against a veteran  who  qualifies  for  such  credit  pursuant  to  this
    19  section.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1    3. The boards of trustees of the state university and the city univer-
     2  sity  of  New York shall adopt such procedures as are necessary to fully
     3  implement the provisions of this section.
     4    §  2.  This act shall take effect on the first of July next succeeding
     5  the date on which it shall have become a law.