A02919 Summary:
BILL NO | A02919 |
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SAME AS | No Same As |
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SPONSOR | Jensen |
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COSPNSR | Brown E, Bendett, Manktelow, Lemondes, Gallahan, Giglio JM, Angelino |
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Amd §6301, Ed L | |
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Includes active duty military and certain veterans going to college under the new GI bill in the definition of resident as it relates to community colleges and state-aided four-year colleges. |
A02919 Actions:
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02/01/2023 | referred to higher education | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
01/03/2024 | referred to higher education |
A02919 Memo:
Go to topNEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLY
MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT OF LEGISLATION
submitted in accordance with Assembly Rule III, Sec 1(f)   BILL NUMBER: A2919 SPONSOR: Jensen
  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 OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL: 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 SPECIFIC 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 mili- tary, 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 attend- ing any community college or state-aided four-year college under the federal post-9/11 veteran's educational assistance act of 2008, public law 110-252, supplemental appropriations act, 2008, shall be considered a resident for the purpose of this article.   JUSTIFICATION: Under current law, after serving in active duty, our soldiers who choose to come to New York State to study at State University of New York (SUNY) colleges are charged out-of-state tuition. This often results in significant tuition bills, as the federal GI bill does not fully cover the cost of out-of-state SUNY tuition. This bill will allow for anyone who has served in active duty in the United States military to attend SUNY colleges and universities as a resident of the State of the New York; thereby, waiving the residency requirements. The men and women who provide honorable service to our country should be able to attend college here in New York without worrying about extra cost that might fall to them because they are not yet a resident. We should be encourag- ing our service men and women to come to New York, study at our colleges and universities and start their future in New York State.   LEGISLATIVE HISTORY: A.4299 of 2021/22 A.6034 of 2019/2020   FISCAL IMPLICATIONS: To be determined.   EFFECTIVE DATE: Immediately.
A02919 Text:
Go to top STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 2919 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY February 1, 2023 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. JENSEN -- read once and referred 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: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 5 of section 6301 of the education law, as 2 amended by chapter 327 of the laws of 2002, the opening paragraph as 3 amended by chapter 669 of the laws of 2022, is amended to read as 4 follows: 5 5. "Resident." A person who has resided in the state for a period of 6 at least one year and in the county, city, town, intermediate school 7 district, school district or community college region, as the case may 8 be, for a period of at least six months, both immediately preceding the 9 date of such person's registration in a community college or, for the 10 purposes of section sixty-three hundred five of this article, his or her 11 application for a certificate of residence; provided, however, that this 12 term shall include any student who is not a resident of New York state, 13 other than a non-immigrant noncitizen within the meaning of paragraph 14 (15) of subsection (a) of section 1101 of title 8 of the United States 15 Code, if such student: 16 (i) attended an approved New York high school for two or more years, 17 graduated from an approved New York high school and applied for attend- 18 ance at an institution or educational unit of the state university with- 19 in five years of receiving a New York state high school diploma; or 20 (ii) attended an approved New York state program for general equiv- 21 alency diploma exam preparation, received a general equivalency diploma 22 issued within New York state and applied for attendance at an institu- 23 tion or educational unit of the state university within five years of 24 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. LBD04864-01-3A. 2919 2 1 (iii) was enrolled in an institution or educational unit of the state 2 university in the fall semester or quarter of the two thousand one--two 3 thousand two academic year and was authorized by such institution or 4 educational unit to pay tuition at the rate or charge imposed for 5 students who are residents of the state. 6 Provided, further, that a student without lawful immigration status 7 shall also be required to file an affidavit with such institution or 8 educational unit stating that the student has filed an application to 9 legalize his or her immigration status, or will file such an application 10 as soon as he or she is eligible to do so. 11 Provided, further, that any person who is serving or has served in 12 active duty of the United States military, including the United States 13 navy, marines, army or air force, during a war in which the United 14 States engaged and who has been released from such service by any means 15 other than by dishonorable discharge, or who has been furloughed to the 16 reserve and who is attending any community college or state-aided four- 17 year college under the federal post-9/11 veterans educational assistance 18 act of 2008, public law 110-252, supplemental appropriations act, 2008, 19 shall be considered a resident for the purposes of this article. 20 In the event that a person qualified as above for state residence, but 21 has been a resident of two or more counties in the state during the six 22 months immediately preceding his application for a certificate of resi- 23 dence pursuant to section sixty-three hundred five of this [chapter] 24 article, the charges to the counties of residence shall be allocated 25 among the several counties proportional to the number of months, or 26 major fraction thereof, of residence in each county. 27 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.