Senate Bill S1713

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Establishes a giving internships for disabled veterans not fully employed program (G.I.V.E. Back NY)

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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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2017-S1713 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Veterans, Homeland Security And Military Affairs
Law Section:
Legislative Law
Laws Affected:
Add Art 6-B §97, Leg L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2013-2014: S7626
2015-2016: S2182
2019-2020: S386
2021-2022: S228
2023-2024: S291

2017-S1713 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Establishes a giving internships for disabled veterans not fully employed program (G.I.V.E Back NY); awards ten percent of available internships in the assembly youth participation program and the senate student program to eligible honorably discharged veterans with service connected disabilities.

2017-S1713 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2017-S1713 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1713
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 10, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sens. TEDISCO, LARKIN -- read twice and ordered printed,
   and when printed to be committed to the Committee on  Veterans,  Home-
   land Security and Military Affairs
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the  legislative  law, in relation to establishing a
   giving internships for disabled veterans not  fully  employed  program
   (G.I.V.E.  Back NY)

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. The legislative law is amended by adding a new article  6-B
 to read as follows:
                                 ARTICLE 6-B
                 GIVING INTERNSHIPS FOR DISABLED VETERANS
                        NOT FULLY EMPLOYED PROGRAM
                            (G.I.V.E. BACK NY)
 SECTION 97. GIVING INTERNSHIPS FOR DISABLED VETERANS NOT FULLY
               EMPLOYED PROGRAM (G.I.V.E. BACK NY).
   § 97. GIVING  INTERNSHIPS  FOR  DISABLED  VETERANS  NOT FULLY EMPLOYED
 PROGRAM (G.I.V.E. BACK NY). 1. THERE IS HEREBY  ESTABLISHED  WITHIN  THE
 LEGISLATURE  A  G.I.V.E.  BACK  NY  PROGRAM TO PROVIDE OPPORTUNITIES FOR
 SERVICE-DISABLED VETERANS TO PARTICIPATE IN THE ASSEMBLY  YOUTH  PARTIC-
 IPATION PROGRAM AND THE SENATE STUDENT PROGRAM. SUCH PROGRAM SHALL AWARD
 TEN PERCENT OF AVAILABLE INTERNSHIPS IN THE ASSEMBLY YOUTH PARTICIPATION
 PROGRAM  AND THE SENATE STUDENT PROGRAM TO ELIGIBLE HONORABLY DISCHARGED
 VETERANS WITH SERVICE-CONNECTED DISABILITIES.  VETERANS WHO ARE  AWARDED
 INTERNSHIPS  PURSUANT  TO  THE  G.I.V.E. BACK NY PROGRAM SHALL RECEIVE A
 STIPEND THAT IS EQUIVALENT TO THE STIPEND AWARDED  TO  GRADUATE  STUDENT
 PARTICIPANTS  IN  THE  ASSEMBLY  YOUTH  PARTICIPATION PROGRAM AND SENATE
 STUDENT PROGRAM FOR A ONE SEMESTER INTERNSHIP.
   2. TO BE ELIGIBLE TO PARTICIPATE IN THE G.I.V.E. BACK  NY  PROGRAM,  A
 CANDIDATE SHALL:

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD06365-01-7
              

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