Relates to the issuance of pool and health memberships to disabled veterans at certain SUNY and CUNY campuses

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Relates to the issuance of pool and health memberships to disabled veterans at certain SUNY and CUNY campuses

Relates to the issuance of pool and health memberships to disabled veterans at certain SUNY and CUNY campuses Requires that the state university of New York's board of trustees and the city university of New York's board of trustees shall each adopt a policy requiring all state university of New York, city university of New York, college, and community college campuses that offer membership programs to the general public for the use of fitness and aquatic facilities, to permit disabled veterans to obtain a membership for the use of fitness and aquatic facilities upon the same terms and conditions as apply to the general public, but without payment of any fees or other charges, or at a discounted rate; defines "disabled veteran".

What This Bill Does

• Relates to the issuance of pool and health memberships to disabled veterans at certain SUNY and CUNY campuses Requires that the state university of New York's board of trustees and the city university of New York's board of trustees shall each adopt a policy requiring all state university of New York, city university of New York, college, and community college campuses that offer membership programs to the general public for the use of fitness and aquatic facilities, to permit disabled veterans to obtain a membership for the use of fitness and aquatic facilities upon the same terms and conditions as apply to the general public, but without payment of any fees or other charges, or at a discounted rate; defines "disabled veteran".

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Official Summary Text

Relates to the issuance of pool and health memberships to disabled veterans at certain SUNY and CUNY campuses
Requires that the state university of New York's board of trustees and the city university of New York's board of trustees shall each adopt a policy requiring all state university of New York, city university of New York, college, and community college campuses that offer membership programs to the general public for the use of fitness and aquatic facilities, to permit disabled veterans to obtain a membership for the use of fitness and aquatic facilities upon the same terms and conditions as apply to the general public, but without payment of any fees or other charges, or at a discounted rate; defines "disabled veteran".

Current Bill Text

S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          6001

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                                  I N  A S S E M B L Y

                                    February 25, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. SCHIAVONI, STERN -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Higher Education

        AN  ACT relating to the issuance of pool and health memberships to disa-
          bled veterans at certain SUNY and CUNY campuses

          THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
        BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

     1    Section  1. For the purposes of this section, "disabled veteran" shall
     2  mean a veteran who is certified by the United States veterans'  adminis-
     3  tration  or  a  military  department  as  entitled to receive disability
     4  payments upon the certification of such veterans'  administration  or  a
     5  military  department  for  a  disability  incurred by the veteran in the
     6  course of their service.
     7    § 2. The state university of New York's board of trustees shall  adopt
     8  a  policy requiring all state university of New York, city university of
     9  New York, college, and community college campuses that offer  membership
    10  programs to the general public for the use of fitness and aquatic facil-
    11  ities, to permit disabled veterans to obtain a membership for the use of
    12  fitness  and  aquatic  facilities  upon the same terms and conditions as
    13  apply to the general public, but without payment of any  fees  or  other
    14  charges.  Such  membership  shall  be  granted  upon the presentation of
    15  documentation confirming disabled veteran status at the time of applica-
    16  tion or any time after such membership has been granted.
    17    § 3. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth  day  after  it  shall
    18  have become a law.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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