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
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          7784

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                                    I N  S E N A T E

                                       May 6, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced by Sens. SCARCELLA-SPANTON, PALUMBO -- read twice and ordered
          printed,  and  when printed to be committed 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.
                                                                   LBD03049-01-5