Bill Text: NY S05214 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Directs the division of veterans services and the division of the budget to conduct a study on veterans services provided to residents of the state.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO VETERANS, HOMELAND SECURITY AND MILITARY AFFAIRS [S05214 Detail]

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5214
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                     April 16, 2019
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        Introduced  by Sens. BROOKS, ORTT -- read twice and ordered printed, and
          when printed to be committed to the Committee  on  Veterans,  Homeland
          Security and Military Affairs
        AN  ACT  to  direct the division of veterans affairs and the division of
          the budget to conduct a study on veterans services provided  to  resi-
          dents of the state
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. 1. (a) The division of veterans  affairs,  in  consultation
     2  with  the  division  of  the  budget,  shall conduct a study on veterans
     3  services provided to residents of New York state.
     4    (b) Such study shall include, but not be limited to:
     5    i. a list of all veterans services agencies and not-for-profit  organ-
     6  izations which provide services to veterans;
     7    ii.  the  counties served by each veterans services agency or not-for-
     8  profit organization; and
     9    iii. the services provided by each veterans services  agency  or  not-
    10  for-profit organization.
    11    2.  On  or  before  one  year from the effective date of this act, the
    12  division of veterans affairs shall submit such study  to  the  governor,
    13  the  temporary president of the senate, the speaker of the assembly, all
    14  members of the senate committee on veterans, homeland security and mili-
    15  tary affairs, and the assembly committee on veterans affairs.
    16    3. The division of veterans affairs and the division of the budget may
    17  request, and are authorized to receive, any information from  any  state
    18  agency  that  is  relevant and material to the completion of such study.
    19  Such information received by the department of state shall be subject to
    20  the same requirements for confidentiality and  limitations  on  use,  if
    21  any, as are applicable to such state agency's use of such information.
    22    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD10985-01-9