Bill Text: NY S03775 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Senate Bill 3775 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Creates a veterans' mental health and suicide prevention task force.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-15 - PRINT NUMBER 3775A [S03775 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S03775-Amended.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                         3775--A
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    February 17, 2015
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  Sen. SANDERS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Veterans, Homeland Securi-
          ty and Military Affairs -- recommitted to the Committee  on  Veterans,
          Homeland  Security and Military Affairs in accordance with Senate Rule
          6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted  as
          amended and recommitted to said committee
        AN  ACT  to create a veterans' mental health and suicide prevention task
          force; and providing for the repeal of such provisions upon expiration
          thereof
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Legislative intent. The legislature is concerned with the
     2  health, safety, and welfare of all  returning  veterans  of  the  United
     3  States armed forces to New York and the high rate of mental health prob-
     4  lems and suicides of members of the United States armed forces.
     5    §  2.  Veterans'  suicide  task force. (a) There is hereby created the
     6  veterans' mental health and suicide prevention task  force  to  examine,
     7  evaluate  and  determine  how  to  improve  mental  health  and  suicide
     8  prevention for our veterans, consisting of seven members, each to  serve
     9  until May first, two thousand seventeen.
    10    (b)(1) Such members shall be appointed as follows: one member shall be
    11  appointed  by  the governor; one member shall be appointed by the tempo-
    12  rary president of the senate; one  member  shall  be  appointed  by  the
    13  minority  leader  of  the  senate;  one member shall be appointed by the
    14  speaker of the assembly; one member shall be appointed by  the  minority
    15  leader of the assembly; one member shall be appointed by the director of
    16  the  New  York State Division of Veterans' Affairs; and one member shall
    17  be appointed by the commissioner of health. Appointments shall  be  made
    18  within  sixty  days  of the effective date of this act. Vacancies in the
    19  task force shall be filled in the manner provided for original  appoint-
    20  ments.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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