Every jurisdiction in this catalog has entries whose figures move when a bill passes, whose act takes effect on a later date, or whose program is repealed while its agency keeps advertising it. This page watches each jurisdiction's law, follows a bill through its own jurisdiction's process where its stages are recorded, and names the catalog entries each instrument touches.
1 instrument in New York. Tracked across 51 jurisdictions. Every other jurisdiction on the board is still watched by hand.
A bill that died is listed only where a guide, an agency, or a news story has described it as current law. That is the failure that puts a number in front of a veteran which no assessor, registrar, or school will honor.
▲Expands benefitsLets a veteran transfer an unused Veterans Tuition Award once, to one family member, from July 1, 2027.
A qualified veteran may transfer an unused award once, to one spouse, child under 26 or financial dependent residing in New York, capped at 100 transfers a year statewide. Chapter 688 was signed December 19, 2025; the chapter amendment, signed February 13, 2026, narrowed it and delayed it to July 1, 2027. The text is already printed in Education Law 669-a with an effective-date note.
A bill moves when the people who vote on it hear from the people it affects. Enter your address to see who represents you in Congress and in your state legislature, and where to get free, accredited help with a VA claim: your county veterans service officer or town veterans’ agent, and your state’s service offices.