Bill Text: NY A06170 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 6170 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Changes the eligibility dates for a military service recognition scholarship to include certain conflicts beginning on and after June 1, 1982.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-06 - referred to higher education [A06170 Detail]

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         6170
                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                    March 16, 2015
                                      ___________
       Introduced  by M. of A. RUSSELL -- read once and referred to the Commit-
         tee on Higher Education
       AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to changing the eligibil-
         ity dates for a military service recognition  scholarship  to  include
         the conflicts that occurred after June 1, 1982
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Paragraph a of subdivision 1 of section 668-e of the educa-
    2  tion law, as added by chapter 106 of the laws of  2003,  is  amended  to
    3  read as follows:
    4    a.  Notwithstanding subdivisions three and five of section six hundred
    5  sixty-one of this title, children, spouses and financial dependents of a
    6  member of the armed forces of the United States or state organized mili-
    7  tia who at any time on or after the  [second  day  of  August,  nineteen
    8  hundred  ninety]  FIRST  OF  JUNE, NINETEEN HUNDRED EIGHTY-TWO, while in
    9  service in the armed forces of the United States, as defined by subdivi-
   10  sion eight of section one of the military law or in a force of the state
   11  organized militia, as defined in subdivision nine of section one of  the
   12  military law: (i) while a legal resident of New York state, died, became
   13  severely and permanently disabled or was classified as missing in action
   14  in  a  combat  theater  or combat zone of operations as part of military
   15  operations, or died as  a  result  of  injury  or  illness  suffered  or
   16  incurred during such military service; or (ii) while a legal resident of
   17  New  York  state,  died or became severely and permanently disabled as a
   18  result of injury or illness suffered or incurred during military  train-
   19  ing  operations  in  preparation  for duty in a combat theater or combat
   20  zone of operations.
   21    S 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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