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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Relates to the veterans tuition awards program"
+description: "Expands the veterans tuition awards program to allow the transfer of unused benefits to a spouse, survivor or child; defines terms."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ny"
+legislature: "New York Legislature"
+session: "2025-2026"
+identifier: "S 4358"
+citation: "New York S 4358 (2025-2026)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Jamaal Bailey"]
+version_count: 2
+action_count: 22
+vote_count: 5
+first_action: "2025-02-04"
+last_action: "2025-12-19"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b0545edc-e65a-48d7-be41-2e6e0cec99a3"
+source_url: "http://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2025/S4358"
+source_hash: "47563bdc7b307fa84d209613ac5f00a4b1c8eb83b3943b03775b0e0a44a4329d"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ny"]
+---
+
+# New York S 4358 (2025-2026) — Relates to the veterans tuition awards program
+
+Expands the veterans tuition awards program to allow the transfer of unused benefits to a spouse, survivor or child; defines terms.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **S4358** (committee substitute) — [source](http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?sh=printbill&bn=S4358&term=2025&Text=Y)
+2. **S4358A** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legislation.nysenate.gov/pdf/bills/2025/S4358A)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Floor Vote — **59–0** (pass) · upper
+- Veterans, Homeland Security And Military Affairs Vote — **9–0** (pass) · upper
+- Finance Vote — **22–0** (pass) · upper
+- Floor Vote - Version: A — **58–1** (pass) · upper
+- Assembly Vote — **145–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Jamaal Bailey — primary (person)
+- Dean Murray — cosponsor (person)
+- Jake Ashby — cosponsor (person)
+- Jeremy Cooney — cosponsor (person)
+- Jessica Scarcella-Spanton — cosponsor (person)
+- Joseph P. Addabbo Jr. — cosponsor (person)
+- Lea Webb — cosponsor (person)
+- Mario Mattera — cosponsor (person)
+- Pamela Helming — cosponsor (person)
+- Patricia Fahy — cosponsor (person)
+- Robert Jackson — cosponsor (person)
+- Steve Rhoads — cosponsor (person)
+- William Weber — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-02-04** REFERRED TO VETERANS, HOMELAND SECURITY AND MILITARY AFFAIRS `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-04** REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE `referral-committee`
+- **2025-05-20** 1ST REPORT CAL.1221
+- **2025-05-21** 2ND REPORT CAL.
+- **2025-05-22** ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
+- **2025-05-27** PASSED SENATE `passage`
+- **2025-05-27** DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
+- **2025-05-27** REFERRED TO HIGHER EDUCATION `referral-committee`
+- **2025-06-09** RECALLED FROM ASSEMBLY
+- **2025-06-09** RETURNED TO SENATE
+- **2025-06-09** VOTE RECONSIDERED - RESTORED TO THIRD READING
+- **2025-06-09** AMENDED ON THIRD READING 4358A `amendment-passage`
+- **2025-06-12** REPASSED SENATE `passage`
+- **2025-06-12** RETURNED TO ASSEMBLY
+- **2025-06-12** REFERRED TO HIGHER EDUCATION `referral-committee`
+- **2025-06-16** SUBSTITUTED FOR A3240A
+- **2025-06-16** ORDERED TO THIRD READING RULES CAL.776
+- **2025-06-16** PASSED ASSEMBLY `passage`
+- **2025-06-16** RETURNED TO SENATE
+- **2025-12-08** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-12-19** SIGNED CHAP.688 `executive-signature`
+- **2025-12-19** APPROVAL MEMO.67
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b0545edc-e65a-48d7-be41-2e6e0cec99a3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New York legislature records).
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