Bill Text: NY S01562 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 1562 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

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

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-08-11 - RECOMMIT, ENACTING CLAUSE STRICKEN [S01562 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S01562-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1562
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    January 15, 2019
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  Sen.  JACOBS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on 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.
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