Bill Text: NY S09258 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Provides that individuals requesting and obtaining a veteran notation on such individual's driver's license or non-driver identification card shall be advised that the department of veterans' services and local veterans' service agencies provide assistance to veterans regarding benefits under federal and state law.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-06-06 - SUBSTITUTED BY A9850 [S09258 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-S09258-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 9258 IN SENATE May 8, 2024 ___________ Introduced by Sens. SCARCELLA-SPANTON, ADDABBO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Veter- ans, Homeland Security and Military Affairs AN ACT to amend the veterans' services law and the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to veterans receiving information on benefits The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 7 of the veterans' services law is amended to read 2 as follows: 3 § 7. Information on status of veterans receiving assistance. Depart- 4 ments, divisions, bureaus, boards, commissions and agencies of the state 5 and political subdivisions thereof, which provide assistance, treatment, 6 counseling, care, supervision or custody in service areas involving 7 health, mental health, family services, criminal justice or employment, 8 including but not limited to the office of addiction services and 9 supports, office of mental health, office of probation and correctional 10 alternatives, office of children and family services, office of tempo- 11 rary and disability assistance, department of health, department of 12 labor, local workforce investment boards, office for people with devel- 13 opmental disabilities, and department of corrections and community 14 supervision, shall request assisted persons to provide information with 15 regard to their veteran status and military experiences. Individuals 16 identifying themselves as veterans, including individuals requesting and 17 obtaining a veteran notation on such individual's driver's license or 18 non-driver identification card pursuant to sections four hundred ninety 19 and five hundred two of the vehicle and traffic law, shall be advised 20 that the department of veterans' services and local veterans' service 21 agencies established pursuant to section fourteen of this article 22 provide assistance to veterans regarding benefits under federal and 23 state law. Information regarding veterans status and military service 24 provided by assisted persons solely to implement this section shall be 25 protected as personal confidential information under article six-A of 26 the public officers law against disclosure of confidential material, and 27 used only to assist in the diagnosis, treatment, assessment and handling EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD15227-01-4S. 9258 2 1 of the veteran's problems within the agency requesting such information 2 and in referring the veteran to the department of veterans' services for 3 information and assistance with regard to benefits and entitlements 4 under federal and state law. 5 § 2. Subdivision 6 of section 508 of the vehicle and traffic law, as 6 added by chapter 602 of the laws of 2021, is amended to read as follows: 7 6. The commissioner, in consultation with the [director] commissioner 8 of the [division] department of veterans' services, is directed to 9 establish a process by which the department shall refer driver's license 10 and non-driver identification card applicants requesting and obtaining a 11 notation upon such license or non-driver identification card that [he or12she] such applicant is a veteran of the United States armed forces 13 pursuant to subdivision three of section four hundred ninety of this 14 chapter or subdivision one of section five hundred two of this article, 15 upon [his or her] such applicant's request, to the [division] department 16 of veterans' services, consistent with the provisions of section [three17hundred fifty-four-a] seven of the [executive] veterans' services law. 18 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.