Bill Text: NY A04654 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Assembly Bill 4654 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Authorizes and directs the commissioner of education to develop a program for veterans who served on active duty to receive high school diplomas.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 19-6)

Status: (Passed) 2019-11-11 - signed chap.477 [A04654 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A04654-Amended.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                         4654--A

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 5, 2019
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  ROZIC,  DenDEKKER,  GRIFFIN -- read once and
          referred to the Committee on Education -- committee  discharged,  bill
          amended,  ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
          tee

        AN ACT to amend the  education  law,  in  relation  to  authorizing  and
          directing  the  commissioner  of  education  to  develop a program for
          certain veterans to receive high school diplomas

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Section 305 of the education law is amended by adding a new
     2  subdivision 29-c to read as follows:
     3    29-c.  The commissioner shall develop a program whereby any veteran of
     4  the armed forces who has served on active  duty  in  the  United  States
     5  Armed  Forces, and who was unable, for any reason, to complete a second-
     6  ary education, may be awarded a high school diploma based  on  knowledge
     7  and experience gained while in service.
     8    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01118-02-9