N.Y. Education Law § 668-c: Awards for Vietnam veterans' children born with Spina Bifida enrolled in approved undergraduate or graduate programs at degree granting i...

§ 668-c. Awards for Vietnam veterans' children born with Spina Bifida

enrolled in approved undergraduate or graduate programs at degree

granting institutions. 1. Eligible students. Awards shall be made to

Vietnam veterans' resident children born with Spina Bifida enrolled in

approved undergraduate or graduate programs at degree granting

institutions. For the purpose of this section, "Vietnam veteran" shall

mean a person who served in Indochina at any time from the first day of

November, nineteen hundred fifty-five, to and including the seventh day

of May, nineteen hundred seventy-five and (a) was honorably discharged

from the armed forces of the United States, or (b) has a qualifying

condition, as defined in section one of the veterans' services law, and

has received a discharge other than bad conduct or dishonorable from the

armed forces of the United States, or (c) is a discharged LGBT veteran,

as defined in section one of the veterans' services law, and has

received a discharge other than bad conduct or dishonorable from the

armed forces of the United States; "born with Spina Bifida" shall mean a

diagnosis at birth of such disease inclusive of all forms,

manifestations, complications and associated medical conditions thereof,

but shall not include Spina Bifida Occulta. Such diagnosis shall be in

accordance with the provisions of the federal Spina Bifida program and

shall be documented by the United States Administration of Veterans'

Affairs.

2. Amount and duration. Every recipient shall receive an annual award

of four hundred fifty dollars for each of not more than four academic

years of undergraduate study or five academic years if a program

normally requires five years, as defined by the commissioner pursuant to

article thirteen of this chapter.