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                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 4, 2017
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 Introduced  by  Sens.  ORTT,  AKSHAR,  CROCI, GALLIVAN, RITCHIE, SERINO,
   VALESKY, YOUNG -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed  to
   be committed to the Committee on Veterans, Homeland Security and Mili-
   tary Affairs

 AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to changing the eligibil-
   ity  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  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Paragraph a of subdivision 1 of section 668-e of the educa-
 tion  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 mili-
 tia  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 subdivi-
 sion 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 train-
 ing 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.
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