New York A 8816: Establishes the veteran career assistance program within the SUNY and CUNY systems

Bill Text

STATE OF NEW YORK
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8816
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
November 25, 2019
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Introduced by M. of A. D'URSO -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Higher Education
AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to the establishment of a
veteran career assistance program within the SUNY and CUNY systems
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The executive law is amended by adding a new section 353-b
2 to read as follows:
3 § 353-b. Veteran career assistance. The director, together with the
4 chancellor of the state university of New York and the chancellor of the
5 city university of New York, shall establish a veteran career assistance
6 program. Such program shall provide discharged under honorable condi-
7 tions veterans with assistance in resume writing and employment place-
8 ment services. The program shall be developed and maintained with
9 resources already available to the division and the university systems.
10 The director shall report to the legislature on an annual basis, the
11 number of veterans utilizing the career assistance program.
12 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
13 it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in (underscored) is new; matter in bracketsitalics
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD05495-03-9