Bill Text: NY S03171 | 2009-2010 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Extends certain educational benefits to eligible veterans.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 7-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2010-06-02 - referred to higher education [S03171 Detail]

Download: New_York-2009-S03171-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         3171
                              2009-2010 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                    March 12, 2009
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       Introduced  by  Sens.  GRIFFO,  DeFRANCISCO, O. JOHNSON, LARKIN, LIBOUS,
         MORAHAN -- read twice and ordered printed,  and  when  printed  to  be
         committed to the Committee on Veterans, Homeland Security and Military
         Affairs
       AN  ACT  to  amend  the  education law, in relation to extending certain
         benefits to those with military service and an honorable discharge
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  Subparagraph 1 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    (1)  Notwithstanding  the  provisions of any other general, special or
    5  local law, rule or regulation, such regulations may permit persons sixty
    6  years of age or over OR THOSE WITH MILITARY  SERVICE  AND  AN  HONORABLE
    7  DISCHARGE  to  audit courses given therein without tuition, examination,
    8  grading or credit therefor upon a space available basis,  as  determined
    9  by  the  president  of  each  such institution, provided that such audit
   10  attendance does not deny course attendance at a state-operated  institu-
   11  tion  by  an individual who is otherwise qualified under the regulations
   12  promulgated pursuant to this section.
   13    S 2. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 7 of section 6206 of  the  education
   14  law,  as added by chapter 344 of the laws of 1995, is amended to read as
   15  follows:
   16    (b) Notwithstanding the provisions of any other  general,  special  or
   17  local  law, rule or regulation, the board of trustees may permit persons
   18  sixty years of age or over OR THOSE WITH MILITARY SERVICE AND AN  HONOR-
   19  ABLE  DISCHARGE to audit courses given therein without tuition, examina-
   20  tion, grading or credit therefor upon a space available basis, as deter-
   21  mined by the president of each  such  institution,  provided  that  such
   22  audit  attendance does not deny course attendance at the city university
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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    1  of New York by an individual  who  is  otherwise  qualified  under  this
    2  section.
    3    S  3.  This act shall take effect on the first of July next succeeding
    4  the date on which it shall have become a law.