STATE OF NEW YORK
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6170
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
March 16, 2015
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Introduced by M. of A. RUSSELL -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Higher Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to changing the eligibil-
ity dates for a military service recognition scholarship to include
the conflicts that occurred after June 1, 1982
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph a of subdivision 1 of section 668-e of the educa-
2 tion law, as added by chapter 106 of the laws of 2003, is amended to
3 read as follows:
4 a. Notwithstanding subdivisions three and five of section six hundred
5 sixty-one of this title, children, spouses and financial dependents of a
6 member of the armed forces of the United States or state organized mili-
7 tia who at any time on or after the [second day of August, nineteen
8 hundred ninety] first of June, nineteen hundred eighty-two, while in
9 service in the armed forces of the United States, as defined by subdivi-
10 sion eight of section one of the military law or in a force of the state
11 organized militia, as defined in subdivision nine of section one of the
12 military law: (i) while a legal resident of New York state, died, became
13 severely and permanently disabled or was classified as missing in action
14 in a combat theater or combat zone of operations as part of military
15 operations, or died as a result of injury or illness suffered or
16 incurred during such military service; or (ii) while a legal resident of
17 New York state, died or became severely and permanently disabled as a
18 result of injury or illness suffered or incurred during military train-
19 ing operations in preparation for duty in a combat theater or combat
20 zone of operations.
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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