Assembly Bill A6034

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Includes certain veterans in the definition of resident as it relates to community colleges and state-aided four-year colleges

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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-A6034 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Higher Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §6301, Ed L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: A10188
2021-2022: A4299
2023-2024: A2919

2019-A6034 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Includes active duty military and certain veterans going to college under the new GI bill in the definition of resident as it relates to community colleges and state-aided four-year colleges.

2019-A6034 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6034
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 26, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. LAWRENCE -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Higher Education
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the  education law, in relation to including certain
   veterans in the definition of resident  as  it  relates  to  community
   colleges and state-aided four-year colleges

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 5 of section 6301  of  the  education  law,  as
 amended  by  chapter  327  of  the  laws  of 2002, is amended to read as
 follows:
   5. "Resident." A person who has resided in the state for a  period  of
 at  least  one  year  and in the county, city, town, intermediate school
 district, school district or community college region, as the  case  may
 be,  for a period of at least six months, both immediately preceding the
 date of such person's registration in a community college  or,  for  the
 purposes of section sixty-three hundred five of this article, his or her
 application for a certificate of residence; provided, however, that this
 term  shall include any student who is not a resident of New York state,
 other than a non-immigrant alien within the meaning of paragraph (15) of
 subsection (a) of section 1101 of title 8 of the United States Code,  if
 such student:
   (i)  attended  an approved New York high school for two or more years,
 graduated from an approved New York high school and applied for  attend-
 ance at an institution or educational unit of the state university with-
 in five years of receiving a New York state high school diploma; or
   (ii)  attended  an  approved New York state program for general equiv-
 alency diploma exam preparation, received a general equivalency  diploma
 issued  within  New York state and applied for attendance at an institu-
 tion or educational unit of the state university within  five  years  of
 receiving a general equivalency diploma issued within New York state; or

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD05210-01-9
              

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