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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1288--A
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 11, 2021
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Introduced by Sens. BROOKS, JORDAN -- read twice and ordered printed,
and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Veterans, Home-
land Security and Military Affairs -- committee discharged, bill
amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
tee
AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to the establishment 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 executive law is amended by adding a new section 353-b
2 to read as follows:
3 § 353-b. Veteran career assistance. The director, together with the
4 chancellor of the state university of New York and the chancellor of the
5 city university of New York, shall establish a veteran career assistance
6 program. Such program shall provide veterans with assistance in resume
7 writing and employment placement services. The program shall be devel-
8 oped and maintained with resources already available to the division and
9 the university systems including, but not limited to, campus veterans
10 service offices, career centers, and opportunity centers.
11 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
12 it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD03577-03-1
