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

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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]

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     2  law are REPEALED, and subdivision 29, as added by chapter 40 of the laws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