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Assembly Bill A5826

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Expands the veterans tuition awards program

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2023-A5826 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S6571
Current Committee:
Assembly Higher Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §669-a, Ed L
Versions Introduced in 2025-2026 Legislative Session:
A1298

2023-A5826 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Expands the veterans tuition awards program to include all persons who were honorably discharged and were residents of the state before and after serving in the armed forces of the United States; provides veterans an award equal to the in-state tuition paid at a state university for each semester the veteran is engaged in undergraduate, graduate or vocational study.

2023-A5826 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5826
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              March 23, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. SLATER -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Higher Education
 
 AN  ACT to amend the education law, in relation to expanding eligibility
   under the veterans tuition awards program
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section  1.  Subdivision  1  of  section 669-a of the education law is
 amended by adding a new paragraph d-1 to read as follows:
   D-1. "VETERAN" MEANS A PERSON WHO: (I) IS A  RESIDENT  OF  THE  STATE;
 (II)  SERVED IN THE ARMED FORCES OF THE UNITED STATES; (III) WAS A RESI-
 DENT  OF THE STATE IMMEDIATELY PRIOR TO HIS OR HER ENTRY INTO SUCH ARMED
 FORCES; AND (IV) RECEIVED AN HONORABLE DISCHARGE FROM THE BRANCH OF  THE
 ARMED FORCES OF THE UNITED STATES IN WHICH HE OR SHE SERVED.
   §  2.  Paragraph  a of subdivision 2 of section 669-a of the education
 law, as amended by section 3 of part N of chapter  57  of  the  laws  of
 2008, is amended to read as follows:
   a. Tuition awards are available for all Vietnam VETERANS, Persian Gulf
 VETERANS,  Afghanistan  [and]  VETERANS, other eligible combat veterans,
 [as defined in subdivision one of this section] AND  VETERANS,  who  are
 enrolled,  pursuant  to  paragraph  a of subdivision four of section six
 hundred sixty-one of this part, in approved  undergraduate  or  graduate
 programs  at  degree granting institutions or enrolled in approved voca-
 tional training programs and who apply for a tuition assistance  program
 award pursuant to section six hundred sixty-seven of this subpart.
   § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD09806-01-3

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