Assembly Bill A3856

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Changes the eligibility dates for a military service recognition scholarship to include certain conflicts

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2019-A3856 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S207
Current Committee:
Assembly Higher Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §668-e, Ed L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: S1417
2011-2012: S148
2013-2014: A5062, S1051
2015-2016: A6170, S2974
2017-2018: A1465, S255
2021-2022: A1288, S2159

2019-A3856 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Changes the eligibility dates for a military service recognition scholarship to include certain conflicts beginning on and after June 1, 1982.

2019-A3856 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   3856
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 31, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  MAGNARELLI  -- 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.
                                                            LBD02196-01-9

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