STATE OF NEW YORK
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8322
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
June 14, 2019
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Introduced by M. of A. BUTTENSCHON -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Higher Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to exempting veterans
from application fees for admission to the state university
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subparagraph 2 of paragraph h of subdivision 2 of section
2 355 of the education law, as separately amended by chapters 552 and 616
3 of the laws of 1985, is amended to read as follows:
4 (2) Such regulations shall also provide that upon request by a student
5 who is an eligible veteran the payment of tuition and other fees and
6 charges, less the amounts payable for such purposes from scholarships or
7 other financial assistance awarded said veteran pursuant to article
8 thirteen of this chapter, article one hundred thirty of this chapter or
9 any other state or federal aid program, shall be deferred in such
10 amounts and until such times as the several payments of veterans' bene-
11 fits under the Veterans' Readjustment Benefit Act of 1966, as amended,
12 are received by the veteran, provided that the veteran has filed a claim
13 for such benefits and presents to the state university proof of eligi-
14 bility, extent of entitlement to benefits and the need for deferral
15 until the receipt of such benefits. An eligible veteran shall also be
16 exempt from the payment of any application fees for admission to any
17 state university.
18 § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
19 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD05814-01-9
