Bill Text: NY A05826 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Expands the veterans tuition awards program to include all persons who were honorably discharged and were residents of the state before and after serving in the armed forces of the United States; provides veterans an award equal to the in-state tuition paid at a state university for each semester the veteran is engaged in undergraduate, graduate or vocational study.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to higher education [A05826 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A05826-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5826

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     March 23, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. SLATER -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Higher Education

        AN  ACT to amend the education law, in relation to expanding eligibility
          under 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.  Subdivision  1  of  section 669-a of the education law is
     2  amended by adding a new paragraph d-1 to read as follows:
     3    d-1. "Veteran" means a person who: (i) is a  resident  of  the  state;
     4  (ii)  served in the armed forces of the United States; (iii) was a resi-
     5  dent  of the state immediately prior to his or her entry into such armed
     6  forces; and (iv) received an honorable discharge from the branch of  the
     7  armed forces of the United States in which he or she served.
     8    §  2.  Paragraph  a of subdivision 2 of section 669-a of the education
     9  law, as amended by section 3 of part N of chapter  57  of  the  laws  of
    10  2008, is amended to read as follows:
    11    a. Tuition awards are available for all Vietnam veterans, Persian Gulf
    12  veterans,  Afghanistan  [and]  veterans, other eligible combat veterans,
    13  [as defined in subdivision one of this section] and  veterans,  who  are
    14  enrolled,  pursuant  to  paragraph  a of subdivision four of section six
    15  hundred sixty-one of this part, in approved  undergraduate  or  graduate
    16  programs  at  degree granting institutions or enrolled in approved voca-
    17  tional training programs and who apply for a tuition assistance  program
    18  award pursuant to section six hundred sixty-seven of this subpart.
    19    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD09806-01-3