What's happening
This bill requires SUNY and CUNY colleges to grant academic credit to veterans for military training or service.
Why it matters
Streamlines the transition from military to college. by ensuring veterans automatically receive academic credit for relevant military training, reducing duplicated coursework and speeding up time to degree completion.
Lowers educational costs for veterans. by prohibiting colleges from charging any fees, tuition, or other costs when awarding credits for military experience, making higher education more financially accessible to those who served.
Standardizes credit evaluation. by requiring that military training or service must meet American Council on Education (ACE) or equivalent standards, ensuring consistency and academic rigor in the credits granted across SUNY and CUNY institutions.
Mandates clear administrative processes. by directing SUNY and CUNY boards to create procedures for implementation, which could reduce bureaucratic barriers and make it easier for veterans to navigate the credit-transfer process.
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Give Veterans College Credit
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Sponsors
1 Co-sponsor
History
- Print number 3179b
- Amend and recommit to higher education
- Referred to higher education
- Print number 3179a
- Amend and recommit to higher education
- Referred to higher education
Companion bill
The same bill in the other chamber. A bill becomes law when one version passes both houses and the governor signs it, so either number can carry it.
Veterans Get College Credit
In Assembly Committee · Higher Education · Sponsor Joseph P. Addabbo Jr.
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STATE OF NEW YORK
3179--B
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 27, 2017
Introduced by M. of A. DenDEKKER, COLTON -- read once and referred to the Committee on Higher Education -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee -- recommitted to the Committee on Higher Education in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to granting academic credit at state operated institutions of the state university of New York and the senior colleges of the city university of New York to veterans
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. The education law is amended by adding a new section 669-i to read as follows:
§ 669-i. Course credit for veterans. 1. For purposes of this section, the term "veteran" means a resident of this state, who has served in the active military or naval service of the United States, and who has been released from such service by means of an honorable discharge, or who has been furloughed to the reserve, or has resumed service back in the New York State Army National Guard, New York Air National Guard, or New York Naval Militia.
2. Every veteran who is enrolled on a full-time basis as an undergraduate student in good standing, at an institution within the state university system or the city university system, shall upon application be granted academic credits without limitation towards his or her degree for completion of courses that were part of such veteran's military training or service if the completed courses meet the standards of the American council on education or its equivalent for the awarding of academic credits. No fee, tuition or other charge shall be assessed against a veteran who qualifies for such credit pursuant to this section.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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3. The boards of trustees of the state university and the city university of New York shall adopt such procedures as are necessary to fully implement the provisions of this section.
§ 2. This act shall take effect on the first of July next succeeding the date on which it shall have become a law.
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