Requires that the state university of New York's board of trustees shall adopt a policy requiring all state university of New York, city university of New York, college, and community college campuses that offer membership programs to the general public for the use of fitness and aquatic facilities, to permit disabled veterans to obtain a membership for the use of fitness and aquatic facilities upon the same terms and conditions as apply to the general public, but without payment of any fees or other charges; defines "disabled veteran".
STATE OF NEW YORK
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6001
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 25, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. SCHIAVONI, STERN -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Higher Education
AN ACT relating to the issuance of pool and health memberships to disa-
bled veterans at certain SUNY and CUNY campuses
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. For the purposes of this section, "disabled veteran" shall
2 mean a veteran who is certified by the United States veterans' adminis-
3 tration or a military department as entitled to receive disability
4 payments upon the certification of such veterans' administration or a
5 military department for a disability incurred by the veteran in the
6 course of their service.
7 § 2. The state university of New York's board of trustees shall adopt
8 a policy requiring all state university of New York, city university of
9 New York, college, and community college campuses that offer membership
10 programs to the general public for the use of fitness and aquatic facil-
11 ities, to permit disabled veterans to obtain a membership for the use of
12 fitness and aquatic facilities upon the same terms and conditions as
13 apply to the general public, but without payment of any fees or other
14 charges. Such membership shall be granted upon the presentation of
15 documentation confirming disabled veteran status at the time of applica-
16 tion or any time after such membership has been granted.
17 § 3. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
18 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD03049-01-5
