STATE OF NEW YORK
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3121
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 23, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. ORTT -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Higher Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to providing in-state
tuition for community college for certain members of the military
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 8 of section 6305 of the education law, as
2 amended by chapter 604 of the laws of 2021, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 8. Part-time and out-of-state students shall be charged such tuition
5 and fees as may be approved by the state university trustees. Any
6 student attending a community college who is a member or the spouse or
7 the dependent of a member of the armed forces of the United States on
8 full-time active duty and stationed in this state, or who have received
9 letters of acceptance to the military, whether or not a resident of this
10 state, shall be charged the tuition rate for residents as approved by
11 the state university trustees. Any student attending a community college
12 in accordance with the federal GI bills and in compliance with all
13 applicable eligibility requirements thereof, whether or not a resident
14 of this state, shall be charged the tuition rate for residents as
15 approved by the state university trustees. Any student attending a
16 community college who is the spouse or the dependent of a member of the
17 armed forces of the United States on full-time active duty and not
18 stationed in this state immediately following being stationed therein,
19 whether or not a resident of this state, shall be charged the tuition
20 rate for residents as approved by the state university trustees.
21 § 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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