Authorizes and directs the commissioner of education to develop a program for veterans who served on or after January 1, 1973 to receive high school diplomas.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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6741
IN SENATE
March 15, 2012
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Introduced by Sen. ADDABBO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to authorizing and
directing the commissioner of education to develop a program for
certain veterans to receive high school diplomas
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 305 of the education law is amended by adding a new
2 subdivision 29-c to read as follows:
3 29-c. The commissioner shall develop a program whereby any veteran of
4 the armed forces who served on or after January first, nineteen hundred
5 seventy-three and who was unable, for any reason, to complete a second-
6 ary education, may be awarded a high school diploma based on knowledge
7 and experience gained while in service.
8 § 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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