Assembly Actions -
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May 04, 2016 |
reported and committed to finance |
Jan 06, 2016 |
referred to higher education returned to senate died in assembly |
Jun 10, 2015 |
referred to higher education delivered to assembly passed senate |
Jun 08, 2015 |
advanced to third reading |
Jun 03, 2015 |
2nd report cal. |
Jun 02, 2015 |
1st report cal.1256 |
May 05, 2015 |
reported and committed to finance |
Jan 07, 2015 |
referred to higher education |
Senate Bill S836
2015-2016 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
(R, C, IP) Senate District
Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Finance Committee
- Introduced
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- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
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- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
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- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- Delivered to Governor
- Signed By Governor
Actions
Votes
co-Sponsors
(R, C, IP) Senate District
(R, C, IP) Senate District
2015-S836 (ACTIVE) - Details
- Current Committee:
- Senate Finance
- Law Section:
- Education Law
- Laws Affected:
- Amd ยง6301, Ed L
- Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
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2011-2012:
S6384
2013-2014: S1978
2017-2018: S1011
2015-S836 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo
BILL NUMBER:S836 TITLE OF BILL: An act to amend the education law, in relation to including certain veterans in the definition of resident as it relates to community colleges and state-aided four-year colleges PURPOSE: Allows for any person who is serving or has served in active duty of the United State Military under the provisions of the legislation to be considered a resident of the State of New York SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS: Adds the following language to read: Provided, further, that any person who is serving or has served in active duty of the United States military, including the United States navy, marines, army or air force, during a war in which the United States engaged and who has been released from such service by any means other than by dishonorable discharge, or who has been furloughed to the reserve and who is attending any community college or state-aided four year college under the federal post-9/11 veterans educational assistance act of 2008, public law 110-252, supplemental appropriations act, 2008, shall be considered a resident for the purpose of this article.
2015-S836 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 836 2015-2016 Regular Sessions I N S E N A T E (PREFILED) January 7, 2015 ___________ Introduced by Sen. ROBACH -- 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 including certain veterans in the definition of resident as it relates to community colleges and state-aided four-year colleges THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Subdivision 5 of section 6301 of the education law, as amended by chapter 327 of the laws of 2002, is amended to read as follows: 5. "Resident." A person who has resided in the state for a period of at least one year and in the county, city, town, intermediate school district, school district or community college region, as the case may be, for a period of at least six months, both immediately preceding the date of such person's registration in a community college or, for the purposes of section sixty-three hundred five of this article, his or her application for a certificate of residence; provided, however, that this term shall include any student who is not a resident of New York state, other than a non-immigrant alien within the meaning of paragraph (15) of subsection (a) of section 1101 of title 8 of the United States Code, if such student: (i) attended an approved New York high school for two or more years, graduated from an approved New York high school and applied for attend- ance at an institution or educational unit of the state university with- in five years of receiving a New York state high school diploma; or (ii) attended an approved New York state program for general equiv- alency diploma exam preparation, received a general equivalency diploma issued within New York state and applied for attendance at an institu- tion or educational unit of the state university within five years of receiving a general equivalency diploma issued within New York state; or EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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