STATE OF NEW YORK
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3171
2009-2010 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
March 12, 2009
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Introduced by Sens. GRIFFO, DeFRANCISCO, O. JOHNSON, LARKIN, LIBOUS,
MORAHAN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be
committed to the Committee on Veterans, Homeland Security and Military
Affairs
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to extending certain
benefits to those with military service and an honorable discharge
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subparagraph 1 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 (1) Notwithstanding the provisions of any other general, special or
5 local law, rule or regulation, such regulations may permit persons sixty
6 years of age or over or those with military service and an honorable
7 discharge to audit courses given therein without tuition, examination,
8 grading or credit therefor upon a space available basis, as determined
9 by the president of each such institution, provided that such audit
10 attendance does not deny course attendance at a state-operated institu-
11 tion by an individual who is otherwise qualified under the regulations
12 promulgated pursuant to this section.
13 § 2. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 7 of section 6206 of the education
14 law, as added by chapter 344 of the laws of 1995, is amended to read as
15 follows:
16 (b) Notwithstanding the provisions of any other general, special or
17 local law, rule or regulation, the board of trustees may permit persons
18 sixty years of age or over or those with military service and an honor-
19 able discharge to audit courses given therein without tuition, examina-
20 tion, grading or credit therefor upon a space available basis, as deter-
21 mined by the president of each such institution, provided that such
22 audit attendance does not deny course attendance at the city university
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 of New York by an individual who is otherwise qualified under this
2 section.
3 § 3. This act shall take effect on the first of July next succeeding
4 the date on which it shall have become a law.
