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

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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-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4654
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 5, 2019
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        Introduced by M. of A. ROZIC, DenDEKKER -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Education
        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 served on or after January first, nineteen hundred
     5  seventy-three 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.
                                                                   LBD01118-01-9