Bill Text: NY S00397 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended

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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: Strong Partisan Bill (Republican 12-1)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2018-04-17 - referred to education [S00397 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S00397-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         397--B
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                       (Prefiled)
                                     January 4, 2017
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  Sens.  ORTT,  AKSHAR,  AVELLA, GALLIVAN, GOLDEN, LARKIN,
          RANZENHOFER, RITCHIE, ROBACH, SEWARD -- read twice and ordered  print-
          ed,  and  when  printed  to be committed to the Committee on Veterans,
          Homeland Security and Military Affairs -- committee  discharged,  bill
          amended,  ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
          tee --  committee  discharged,  bill  amended,  ordered  reprinted  as
          amended and recommitted to said committee
        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     2  law are REPEALED, and subdivision 29, as added by chapter 40 of the laws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.
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