New York Assembly Bill A06504 Latest Draft

   
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 6504 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY March 5, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. DAIS -- read once and referred to the Committee on Higher Education AN ACT to amend the veterans' services law, in relation to the estab- lishment 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 veterans' services law is amended by adding a new 2 section 5-a to read as follows: 3 § 5-a. Veteran career assistance. The state commissioner, together 4 with the chancellor of the state university of New York and the chancel- 5 lor of the city university of New York, shall establish a veteran career 6 assistance program. Such program shall provide veterans with assistance 7 in resume writing and employment placement services. The program shall 8 be developed and maintained with resources already available to the 9 division and the university systems including, but not limited to, 10 campus veterans service offices, career centers, and opportunity 11 centers. 12 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after 13 it shall have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD05774-01-5