STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 255 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN SENATE (Prefiled) January 4, 2017 ___________ Introduced by Sens. ORTT, AKSHAR, CROCI, GALLIVAN, RITCHIE, SERINO, VALESKY, YOUNG -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Veterans, Homeland Security and Mili- tary Affairs AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to changing the eligibil- ity dates for a military service recognition scholarship to include the conflicts that occurred after June 1, 1982 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Paragraph a of subdivision 1 of section 668-e of the educa- 2 tion law, as added by chapter 106 of the laws of 2003, is amended to 3 read as follows: 4 a. Notwithstanding subdivisions three and five of section six hundred 5 sixty-one of this title, children, spouses and financial dependents of a 6 member of the armed forces of the United States or state organized mili- 7 tia who at any time on or after the [second day of August, nineteen 8 hundred ninety] first of June, nineteen hundred eighty-two, while in 9 service in the armed forces of the United States, as defined by subdivi- 10 sion eight of section one of the military law or in a force of the state 11 organized militia, as defined in subdivision nine of section one of the 12 military law: (i) while a legal resident of New York state, died, became 13 severely and permanently disabled or was classified as missing in action 14 in a combat theater or combat zone of operations as part of military 15 operations, or died as a result of injury or illness suffered or 16 incurred during such military service; or (ii) while a legal resident of 17 New York state, died or became severely and permanently disabled as a 18 result of injury or illness suffered or incurred during military train- 19 ing operations in preparation for duty in a combat theater or combat 20 zone of operations. 21 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD02439-01-7