The Daily News noted this discrepancy here on February 8, 2016.
Assemblyman Kieren Michael Lalor has skewered the Governor in his February 16 letter here.
NYS Assemblyman Brian Curran rallied for the cause Friday, February 19, 2016, see video here
- His February 10th announcement for the rally/press conference is here
This Governor's promise, of course, came after his two consecutive vetoes (2014 and 2015) of bipartisan and widely-supported bills enacting military service credit reform.
Best case scenario would have been an allocation in Gov Cuomo's budget proposal for an expansion of the program to cover certain of the excluded veterans (January 13) ...then an allocation in Senate and House budgets (released around March 15) to cover all excluded veterans ...then a compromise negotiation or trade-off between the two in the NYS final budget on April 1, 2016.
Since the best case scenario has not unfolded it may be that a compromise negotiation or trade-off between zero expansion (contents of the Gov Cuomo budget proposal) and Veterans' Equality Act (VEA) is now the best case scenario. To ensure this occurs, call your reps and the legislative leadership to get a funded VEA in the house budgets...success in our efforts will be revealed March 15 (or thereabouts).
Negotiations between the Governor's office and legislative staffers is ongoing.
The current law on military service credit, its most glaring defects, and the proposed cure presented by the two previously vetoed bills (A04313 and S04124) are presented below:
