Bill Text: NY A08114 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Directs the division of veterans' services to provide information regarding resources that are available to assist veterans who experience post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury (TBI); directs portals on the division's internet website.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2020-07-23 - REFERRED TO RULES [A08114 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A08114-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          8114

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      June 3, 2019
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. BARRETT -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Veterans' Affairs

        AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to directing the division
          of veterans' services to provide information to veterans  who  experi-
          ence post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury

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

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 21 of section 353  of  the  executive  law,  as
     2  added by chapter 48 of the laws of 2013, is amended to read as follows:
     3    21.  To  provide information regarding resources that are available to
     4  assist veterans who experience mental health or  substance  abuse  prob-
     5  lems,  and  veterans  with  physical disabilities, by maintaining mental
     6  health, substance abuse and physical disabilities portals on  the  divi-
     7  sion's  internet  website.  Such  portals shall provide virtual links to
     8  appropriate governmental programs on the federal and  state  levels  and
     9  information  on  suicide prevention, traumatic brain injury (TBI), post-
    10  traumatic  stress  disorder  (PTSD),  peer  outreach  and  support,  and
    11  services that address the special needs of physically disabled veterans.
    12  The division may consult with the office of mental health, the office of
    13  alcoholism  and  substance  abuse services, the department of health and
    14  the department of labor. The  division  shall  make  reference  to  this
    15  information  provided pursuant to subdivisions four-a and four-b of this
    16  section and in the annual report to the  governor  and  the  legislature
    17  required  pursuant  to subdivision eleven of this section. Such informa-
    18  tion required under this subdivision shall  be  maintained  and  updated
    19  annually.
    20    §  2.  This  act  shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
    21  have become a law.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11916-02-9
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