Senate Bill S747

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to veterans tuition awards program eligibility

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Current Bill Status - On Floor Calendar

  • 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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2025-S747 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A1470
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §669-a, Ed L; amd §4, Chap of 2024 (as proposed in S.8596-A & A.9205-A)

2025-S747 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to veterans tuition awards program eligibility; makes tuition awards available for certain veterans including, but not limited to Vietnam, Persian Gulf and Afghanistan.

2025-S747 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S747 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    747
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 8, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by Sen. SCARCELLA-SPANTON -- read twice and ordered printed,
   and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
 
 AN ACT to amend the education  law,  in  relation  to  veterans  tuition
   awards program eligibility, and to amend a chapter of the laws of 2024
   amending the education law relating to expanding eligibility under the
   veterans  tuition  awards  program,  as  proposed in legislative bills
   numbers S.  8596-A and A. 9205-A, in  relation  to  the  effectiveness
   thereof
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subparagraph (ii)  of  paragraph  d  of  subdivision  1  of
 section  669-a of the education law, as amended by a chapter of the laws
 of 2024 amending the education law  relating  to  expanding  eligibility
 under  the  veterans  tuition awards program, as proposed in legislative
 bills numbers S. 8596-A and A. 9205-A, is amended to read as follows:
   (ii) served in the armed forces of the United   States (1)  ON  ACTIVE
 DUTY  FOR AT LEAST FOUR YEARS, OR (2) IN HOSTILITIES THAT OCCURRED AFTER
 FEBRUARY TWENTY-EIGHTH, NINETEEN  HUNDRED  SIXTY-ONE,  AS  EVIDENCED  BY
 THEIR RECEIPT OF AN ARMED FORCES EXPEDITIONARY MEDAL, NAVY EXPEDITIONARY
 MEDAL, OR MARINE CORPS EXPEDITIONARY MEDAL, and
   §  2.  Paragraph  a of subdivision 2 of section 669-a of the education
 law, as amended by a chapter of the laws of 2024 amending the  education
 law  relating to expanding eligibility under the veterans tuition awards
 program, as proposed in legislative  bills  numbers  S.  8596-A  and  A.
 9205-A, is amended to read as follows:
   a. Tuition awards are available for all VIETNAM, PERSIAN GULF, AFGHAN-
 ISTAN AND other eligible veterans, as defined in subdivision one of this
 section,  who  are enrolled, pursuant to paragraph a of subdivision four
 of section six hundred sixty-one of this part, in approved undergraduate
 or graduate programs at degree  granting  institutions  or  enrolled  in
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

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