Bill Text: NY S06523 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Requires the department of veterans' services to establish and maintain, in consultation and collaboration with other state agencies, a searchable database on the department's website providing resources available in the state for veterans, members of the uniformed services, and their families.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Engrossed) 2024-06-04 - SUBSTITUTED BY A7701A [S06523 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S06523-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         6523--A

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                     April 25, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sens.  SCARCELLA-SPANTON, ASHBY, HARCKHAM, STEC, WEBB --
          read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to  be  committed  to
          the  Committee  on Veterans, Homeland Security and Military Affairs --
          recommitted to the Committee on Veterans, Homeland Security and  Mili-
          tary  Affairs  in  accordance  with  Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- reported
          favorably from said  committee  and  committed  to  the  Committee  on
          Finance  --  committee  discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as
          amended and recommitted to said committee

        AN ACT to amend the veterans' services law, in relation to directing the
          department of veterans' services to establish and maintain, in consul-
          tation and collaboration with other state agencies, a searchable data-
          base of resources available in the state for veterans, members of  the
          uniformed services, and their families

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Section 4 of the  veterans'  services  law  is  amended  by
     2  adding a new subdivision 39 to read as follows:
     3    39.  (a)  To establish and maintain, in consultation and collaboration
     4  with other state agencies including, but not limited to, the  office  of
     5  mental health, the department of health, the office of general services,
     6  the  department of labor, the department of state, and the department of
     7  financial services, a searchable database of resources available in  the
     8  state  for  veterans, members of the uniformed services, and their fami-
     9  lies. Such database shall include but not be limited to:
    10    (1) general information about and contact  information  for  resources
    11  available  through  federal,  state,  and  local government agencies and
    12  other organizations including, but not limited  to,  those  relating  to
    13  veterans' benefits, healthcare, housing, employment, veteran-owned busi-
    14  nesses,  survivor  benefits,  substance use disorder treatment, physical
    15  disabilities, educational and job benefits, tuition assistance programs,

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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        S. 6523--A                          2

     1  health and  mental  health  referrals,  real  property  tax  exemptions,
     2  suicide prevention, and peer outreach and support;
     3    (2) information about the department's mobile application, established
     4  under subdivision twenty-one of this section; and
     5    (3) links to the department's small business portal, established under
     6  subdivision  twelve  of this section, the department's veterans' employ-
     7  ment portal, established under subdivision thirteen of this section, the
     8  department's mental health, substance abuse, and  physical  disabilities
     9  portals, established under subdivision twenty-seven of this section, and
    10  the department's military sexual trauma portal, established under subdi-
    11  vision thirty-two of this section.
    12    (b)  The  database  created pursuant to this subdivision shall be made
    13  available on the department's website and shall be reviewed and  updated
    14  at least annually.
    15    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    16  it shall have become a law.  Effective immediately, the addition, amend-
    17  ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen-
    18  tation  of  this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and
    19  completed on or before such effective date.