Bill Text: NY S06571 | 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 [S06571 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S06571-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6571

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                     April 27, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  ASHBY  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed 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.
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