Establishes the veteran career assistance program within the SUNY and CUNY systems to provide veterans with assistance in resume writing and employment placement services.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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2067
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 15, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. SCARCELLA-SPANTON -- read twice and ordered printed,
and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Veterans, Home-
land Security and Military Affairs
AN ACT to amend the veterans' services law, in relation to the estab-
lishment of a veteran career assistance program within the SUNY and
CUNY systems
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The veterans' services law is amended by adding a new
2 section 5-a to read as follows:
3 § 5-a. Veteran career assistance. The state commissioner, together
4 with the chancellor of the state university of New York and the chancel-
5 lor of the city university of New York, shall establish a veteran career
6 assistance program. Such program shall provide veterans with assistance
7 in resume writing and employment placement services. The program shall
8 be developed and maintained with resources already available to the
9 division and the university systems including, but not limited to,
10 campus veterans service offices, career centers, and opportunity
11 centers.
12 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
13 it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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