Bill Text: NY A04755 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Establishes the veteran career assistance program within the SUNY and CUNY systems.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - referred to higher education [A04755 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-A04755-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 4755 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY February 3, 2017 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. DenDEKKER -- read once and referred to the Committee on Higher Education AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to the establishment of a veteran career assistance program within the SUNY and CUNY systems The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The executive law is amended by adding a new section 353-b 2 to read as follows: 3 § 353-b. Veteran career assistance. The director, together with the 4 chancellor of the state university of New York and the chancellor of the 5 city university of New York, shall establish a veteran career assistance 6 program. Such program shall provide honorably discharged veterans with 7 assistance in resume writing and employment placement services. The 8 program shall be developed and maintained with resources already avail- 9 able to the division and the university systems. The director shall 10 report to the legislature on an annual basis, the number of veterans 11 utilizing the career assistance program. 12 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after 13 it shall have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD01770-01-7
