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                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 12, 2017
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 Introduced  by M. of A. JENNE -- read once and referred to the Committee
   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:
 
   Section 1. Paragraph a of subdivision 1 of section 668-e of the educa-
 tion law, as added by chapter 106 of the laws of  2003,  is  amended  to
 read as follows:
   a.  Notwithstanding subdivisions three and five of section six hundred
 sixty-one of this title, children, spouses and financial dependents of a
 member of the armed forces of the United States or state organized mili-
 tia who at any time on or after the  [second  day  of  August,  nineteen
 hundred  ninety]  FIRST  OF  JUNE, NINETEEN HUNDRED EIGHTY-TWO, while in
 service in the armed forces of the United States, as defined by subdivi-
 sion eight of section one of the military law or in a force of the state
 organized militia, as defined in subdivision nine of section one of  the
 military law: (i) while a legal resident of New York state, died, became
 severely and permanently disabled or was classified as missing in action
 in  a  combat  theater  or combat zone of operations as part of military
 operations, or died as  a  result  of  injury  or  illness  suffered  or
 incurred during such military service; or (ii) while a legal resident of
 New  York  state,  died or became severely and permanently disabled as a
 result of injury or illness suffered or incurred during military  train-
 ing  operations  in  preparation  for duty in a combat theater or combat
 zone of operations.
   § 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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