Assembly Bill A7561

2013-2014 Legislative Session

Clarifies eligibility requirements for admission to the New York state veterans' home

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Veterans, Homeland Security And Military Affairs Committee


  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2013-A7561 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S7588
Current Committee:
Senate Veterans, Homeland Security And Military Affairs
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง2632, Pub Health L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2011-2012: A10213
2015-2016: A7229, S305

2013-A7561 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Clarifies eligibility requirements for admission to the New York State Veterans' home.

2013-A7561 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  7561

                       2013-2014 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                              May 23, 2013
                               ___________

Introduced  by  M.  of A. BENEDETTO, HAWLEY -- read once and referred to
  the Committee on Veterans' Affairs

AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to clarifying  eligi-
  bility requirements for admission to the New York state veterans' home

  THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 2632 of the public health law,  as
amended  by  chapter  467  of the laws of 1991, the opening paragraph as
amended by chapter 455 of the laws of 2002, paragraph (d) as amended  by
chapter  616 of the laws of 1995 and paragraph (f) as amended by chapter
179 of the laws of 2006, is amended to read as follows:
  1. Every veteran of the armed forces of the United States, who (i) was
separated or discharged under  honorable  conditions  after  serving  on
active  duty  therein for a period of not less than thirty days, or (ii)
was separated or discharged under honorable conditions after serving  on
active  duty  therein  for a period of not less than thirty days and who
was a recipient of the armed forces expeditionary  medal,  navy  expedi-
tionary  medal  or marine corps expeditionary medal for participation in
operations in Lebanon from June first, nineteen hundred eighty-three  to
December  first,  nineteen hundred eighty-seven, in Grenada from October
twenty-third, nineteen hundred eighty-three  to  November  twenty-first,
nineteen  hundred  eighty-three,  or  in Panama from December twentieth,
nineteen hundred eighty-nine to January thirty-first,  nineteen  hundred
ninety,  OR IN BOSNIA AND HERZGEGOVINA FROM NOVEMBER TWENTY-FIRST, NINE-
TEEN HUNDRED NINETY-FIVE TO NOVEMBER FIRST, TWO THOUSAND SEVEN, OR WAS A
RECIPIENT OF THE  KOSOVO  CAMPAIGN  MEDAL  or  (iii)  was  separated  or
discharged under honorable conditions after serving on active duty ther-
ein  for a period of not less than thirty days and who served during the
period of actual hostilities of either
  (a) the Spanish-American war; or

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD07944-01-3

              

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