Bill Text: NY S01409 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Directs the department of veterans' services to establish and operate an electronic database of the number of openings in each of the 4 state veterans' homes and the number of persons on the waiting list for each such veterans' home.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO VETERANS, HOMELAND SECURITY AND MILITARY AFFAIRS [S01409 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S01409-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1409

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 11, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  ORTT  --  read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Veterans, Homeland Securi-
          ty and Military Affairs

        AN ACT to amend the veterans' services law and the public health law, in
          relation to directing the department of veterans' services  to  estab-
          lish  and  operate  a  publicly  accessible electronic database of the
          availability of openings for admission to state veterans' homes

          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 38 to read as follows:
     3    38. To, in consultation and cooperation with the department of health,
     4  establish and operate an internet website electronic database,  accessi-
     5  ble  to  the public, which provides the number of available openings for
     6  eligible individuals at each state veterans' home operated  pursuant  to
     7  article  twenty-six-A  of the public health law. In addition, such elec-
     8  tronic database shall, for each such veterans' home, provide the  number
     9  of eligible individuals who are on the waiting list for admission to the
    10  state veterans' home and information on the admission process including,
    11  but  not  limited  to,  eligibility  requirements  relating  to military
    12  service history, honorable discharge, service connected disability,  and
    13  skilled nursing needs. The department and the department of health shall
    14  jointly  ensure  that  the information posted on the electronic database
    15  established pursuant to this subdivision is maintained and updated on  a
    16  real time basis as such information changes.
    17    §  2. The public health law is amended by adding a new section 2636 to
    18  read as follows:
    19    § 2636. State veterans' home electronic database. The department shall
    20  fully cooperate with the department of veterans' services  to  establish
    21  and  operate the electronic database provided for in subdivision thirty-
    22  eight of section four of the veterans' services law, and provide  infor-

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  mation  relating  to the state veterans' homes operated pursuant to this
     2  article to such division on a real time basis.
     3    § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
     4  it  shall  have become a law except that if part PP of chapter 56 of the
     5  laws of 2022 shall not have taken effect then this act shall take effect
     6  on the same date and in the same manner as such  chapter  takes  effect,
     7  and  provided  further that effective immediately, any actions necessary
     8  to implement the provisions of  this  act  on  its  effective  date  are
     9  authorized to be completed on or before such date.