Bill Text: NY A08322 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Provides a waiver from SUNY application fees for veterans.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to higher education [A08322 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A08322-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          8322

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      June 14, 2019
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  BUTTENSCHON -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Higher Education

        AN ACT to amend the education law, in  relation  to  exempting  veterans
          from application fees for admission to the state university

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

     1    Section 1. Subparagraph 2 of paragraph h of subdivision 2  of  section
     2  355  of the education law, as separately amended by chapters 552 and 616
     3  of the laws of 1985, is amended to read as follows:
     4    (2) Such regulations shall also provide that upon request by a student
     5  who is an eligible veteran the payment of tuition  and  other  fees  and
     6  charges, less the amounts payable for such purposes from scholarships or
     7  other  financial  assistance  awarded  said  veteran pursuant to article
     8  thirteen of this chapter, article one hundred thirty of this chapter  or
     9  any  other  state  or  federal  aid  program,  shall be deferred in such
    10  amounts and until such times as the several payments of veterans'  bene-
    11  fits  under  the Veterans' Readjustment Benefit Act of 1966, as amended,
    12  are received by the veteran, provided that the veteran has filed a claim
    13  for such benefits and presents to the state university proof  of  eligi-
    14  bility,  extent  of  entitlement  to  benefits and the need for deferral
    15  until the receipt of such benefits. An eligible veteran  shall  also  be
    16  exempt  from  the  payment  of any application fees for admission to any
    17  state university.
    18    § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth  day  after  it  shall
    19  have become a law.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05814-01-9
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