New York A 4509: Includes certain veterans in the definition of resident as it relates to community colleges and state-aided four-year colleges

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A04509 Summary:

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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.

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BILL NOA04509 

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02/04/2025referred to higher education

01/07/2026referred to higher education

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 4509

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 February 4, 2025
 ___________

 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
 11 her] such person's application for a certificate of residence; provided,
 12 however, that this term shall include any student who is not a resident
 13 of New York state, other than a non-immigrant noncitizen within the
 14 meaning of paragraph (15) of subsection (a) of section 1101 of title 8
 15 of the United States 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.
 LBD04639-01-5

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 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] their immigration status, or will file such an
 10 application as soon as [he or she is] they are 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 o