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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3749
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 27, 2015
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Introduced by M. of A. GOLDFEDER -- read once and referred 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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