STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 4668 2025-2026 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY February 4, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. EACHUS, SANTABARBARA -- read once and referred to the Committee on Education AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to awarding high school diplomas to veterans; and repealing certain provisions of such law relating thereto The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivisions 29-a and 29-b of section 305 of the education 2 law are REPEALED, and subdivision 29, as added by chapter 40 of the laws 3 of 2000, is amended to read as follows: 4 29. The commissioner shall develop a program whereby any veteran [of 5 the armed forces who served in world war II and] who has served in the 6 active military or naval service of the United States and who has been 7 discharged from such service under honorable conditions, who was unable, 8 for any reason, to complete a secondary education, may be awarded a high 9 school diploma based on knowledge and experience gained while in 10 service. 11 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD04355-01-5