STATE OF NEW YORK
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397--B
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, 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2 law are REPEALED, and subdivision 29, as added by chapter 40 of the laws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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