Bill Text: NY S07710 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to the membership of the women veterans advisory committee to support and assist the Division of Veterans' Services in locating, educating, and advocating for all women veterans in this state.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2022-02-24 - SIGNED CHAP.79 [S07710 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S07710-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7710

                    IN SENATE

                                     January 7, 2022
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  KAPLAN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules

        AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation  to  the  women  veterans
          advisory committee

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

     1    Section 1. Subdivisions 1 and 8 of section 361-c of the executive law,
     2  as added by a chapter of the laws of 2021, amending  the  executive  law
     3  relating  to creating the women veterans advisory committee, as proposed
     4  in legislative bills numbers S. 701-A and A. 1140-A, are amended to read
     5  as follows:
     6    1. The women veterans advisory committee is hereby created  consisting
     7  of [eight] twelve members, with members appointed as follows:  (a) [two]
     8  six  members by the governor; (b) two members by the temporary president
     9  of the senate; (c) two members by the speaker of the assembly;  and  (d)
    10  one  member  each  by the minority leader of the senate and the minority
    11  leader of the assembly.  All appointed members must be women, and veter-
    12  ans who served in the United States armed forces  including  members  of
    13  the  reserve  component.  Each  veteran shall have received an honorable
    14  discharge or have a qualifying condition as  defined  in  section  three
    15  hundred fifty of this article.
    16    8. Each member of the committee:
    17    (a) serves without compensation, except that a member of the committee
    18  who  is a state officer or employee may receive her regular compensation
    19  while engaging in the business of the committee; and
    20    (b) [while engaged in the business of the committee,  is  entitled  to
    21  receive  the  per  diem allowance and travel expenses provided for state
    22  officers  and  employees  generally]  shall  be  entitled   to   receive
    23  reimbursement  for any actual, necessary expenses incurred in the course
    24  of performing business for the committee.
    25    § 2. This act shall take effect on the  same  date  and  in  the  same
    26  manner  as  a  chapter  of  the laws of 2021, amending the executive law
    27  relating to creating the women veterans advisory committee, as  proposed
    28  in legislative bills numbers S. 701-A and A. 1140-A, takes effect.

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