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Senate Bill S1587

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Relates to granting in-state tuition for community college for individuals who have received letters of acceptance to the military

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2023-S1587 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Higher Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §6305, Ed L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: S314
2021-2022: S3194
2025-2026: S3121

2023-S1587 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Grants in-state tuition for community college for individuals who have received letters of acceptance to the military.

2023-S1587 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2023-S1587 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1587
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 12, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  ORTT  --  read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Higher Education
 
 AN ACT to amend the education law, in  relation  to  providing  in-state
   tuition for community college for certain members of the military
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 8 of section 6305  of  the  education  law,  as
 amended  by  chapter  604  of  the  laws  of 2021, is amended to read as
 follows:
   8. Part-time and out-of-state students shall be charged  such  tuition
 and  fees  as  may  be  approved  by  the state university trustees. Any
 student attending a community college who is a member or the  spouse  or
 the  dependent  of  a member of the armed forces of the United States on
 full-time active duty and stationed in this state, OR WHO HAVE  RECEIVED
 LETTERS OF ACCEPTANCE TO THE MILITARY, whether or not a resident of this
 state,  shall  be  charged the tuition rate for residents as approved by
 the state university trustees. Any student attending a community college
 in accordance with the federal GI  bills  and  in  compliance  with  all
 applicable  eligibility  requirements thereof, whether or not a resident
 of this state, shall be  charged  the  tuition  rate  for  residents  as
 approved  by  the  state  university  trustees.  Any student attending a
 community college who is the spouse or the dependent of a member of  the
 armed  forces  of  the  United  States  on full-time active duty and not
 stationed in this state immediately following being  stationed  therein,
 whether  or  not  a resident of this state, shall be charged the tuition
 rate for residents as approved by the state university trustees.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD05408-01-3

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