Bill Text: NY A04668 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 4668

Introduced

Bill Title: Allows any veteran who has served this nation to be awarded a high school degree based on their knowledge and experience gained while in service.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-02-04 - referred to education [A04668 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-A04668-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4668

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 4, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. EACHUS, SANTABARBARA -- read once and referred to
          the Committee on Education

        AN  ACT  to amend the education law, in relation to awarding high school
          diplomas to veterans; and repealing certain  provisions  of  such  law
          relating thereto

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

     1    Section 1. Subdivisions 29-a and 29-b of section 305 of the  education
     2  law are REPEALED, and subdivision 29, as added by chapter 40 of the laws
     3  of 2000, is amended to read as follows:
     4    29.  The  commissioner shall develop a program whereby any veteran [of
     5  the armed forces who served in world war II and] who has served  in  the
     6  active  military  or naval service of the United States and who has been
     7  discharged from such service under honorable conditions, who was unable,
     8  for any reason, to complete a secondary education, may be awarded a high
     9  school diploma  based  on  knowledge  and  experience  gained  while  in
    10  service.
    11    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD04355-01-5