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This bill expands eligibility for New York's military service recognition scholarships to include those affected by conflicts after June 1, 1982.
Why it matters
Expanding scholarship eligibility to those impacted after June 1, 1982, recognizes veterans and families from more recent conflicts. (such as the Lebanon, Gulf War, Afghanistan, and Iraq wars), addressing a gap that excluded many post-Vietnam service members.
Provides broader support for children, spouses, and financial dependents. of service members who died, became severely and permanently disabled, or were classified as missing in action in combat or during certain training activities, thereby easing financial burdens for more military families.
Demonstrates updated state recognition of military sacrifice in line with changing patterns of service. acknowledging that significant U.S. military engagements have taken place since the previous eligibility date cutoff in 1990, and adapting benefits accordingly.
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Expand Military Scholarship Dates
In Assembly Committee · Higher Education · Sponsor Robert Ortt
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STATE OF NEW YORK
1465
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 12, 2017
Introduced by M. of A. JENNE -- read once and referred to the Committee on Higher Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to changing the eligibility 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 Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Paragraph a of subdivision 1 of section 668-e of the education law, as added by chapter 106 of the laws of 2003, is amended to read as follows:
a. Notwithstanding subdivisions three and five of section six hundred sixty-one of this title, children, spouses and financial dependents of a member of the armed forces of the United States or state organized militia who at any time on or after the [second day of August, nineteen hundred ninety] first of June, nineteen hundred eighty-two, while in service in the armed forces of the United States, as defined by subdivision eight of section one of the military law or in a force of the state organized militia, as defined in subdivision nine of section one of the military law: (i) while a legal resident of New York state, died, became severely and permanently disabled or was classified as missing in action in a combat theater or combat zone of operations as part of military operations, or died as a result of injury or illness suffered or incurred during such military service; or (ii) while a legal resident of New York state, died or became severely and permanently disabled as a result of injury or illness suffered or incurred during military training operations in preparation for duty in a combat theater or combat zone of operations.
§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD02439-01-7
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