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Senate Bill S5946

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Enacts the "Technical Sergeant Joseph G. Lemm tuition benefit act"

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Veterans, Homeland Security And Military Affairs Committee

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2025-S5946 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Veterans, Homeland Security And Military Affairs
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §669-b, Ed L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
S9866

2025-S5946 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Enacts the "Technical Sergeant Joseph G. Lemm tuition benefit act" to allow members of the New York state organized militia to receive tuition benefits for certain post-secondary degree programs.

2025-S5946 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S5946 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5946
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               March 4, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by Sen. SEPULVEDA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Veterans, Homeland Securi-
   ty and Military Affairs
 
 AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to tuition benefit incen-
   tives for members of the New York state organized militia

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may  be  cited  as
 the "Technical Sergeant Joseph G. Lemm tuition benefit act".
   §  2.  Subdivisions  5 and 7 of section 669-b of the education law, as
 added by chapter 268 of the  laws  of  1996,  are  amended  to  read  as
 follows:
   5.  Any  active  member  who  currently  possesses  a  [baccalaureate]
 MASTER'S degree  or  higher  is  ineligible  for  participation  in  the
 recruitment incentive program provided by this section.
   7. Upon the recipient's attainment of a [baccalaureate] POST-SECONDARY
 degree  OR DIPLOMA or cessation of status as an active member, whichever
 occurs first, the benefit provided by this section shall  be  discontin-
 ued.  The  tuition  benefit provided by this section may be suspended at
 the direction of the division of military and naval affairs for a recip-
 ient's failure to maintain good military standing as an  active  member,
 for  the failure to maintain good academic progress and program pursuit,
 or for the failure to maintain sufficient academic  standing  to  retain
 eligibility  for  any  other  financial  assistance the recipient may be
 receiving.
   § 3. This act shall take effect immediately; provided,  however,  that
 the amendments to subdivisions 5 and 7 of section 669-b of the education
 law  made by section two of this act shall not affect the repeal of such
 section and shall be deemed repealed therewith.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD10475-01-5

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