Bill Text: NY S03471 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Establishes the veteran career assistance program within the SUNY and CUNY systems to provide veterans discharged under honorable conditions with assistance in resume writing and employment placement services.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-2)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2020-02-26 - referred to higher education [S03471 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S03471-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         3471--A

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    February 7, 2019
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  BROOKS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Veterans, Homeland Securi-
          ty and Military Affairs -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
          reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

        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 discharged under honorable condi-
     7  tions veterans with assistance in resume writing and  employment  place-
     8  ment  services.  The  program  shall  be  developed  and maintained with
     9  resources already available to the division and the university  systems.
    10  The  director  shall  report  to the legislature on an annual basis, the
    11  number of veterans 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.
                                                                   LBD05495-02-9