Senate Bill S4642

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Creates a veterans' mental health and suicide prevention task force and providing for the repeal of such provisions upon expiration thereof

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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-S4642 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Veterans, Homeland Security And Military Affairs
Law Section:
Veterans
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2015-2016: S3775
2019-2020: S2248
2021-2022: S1788

2017-S4642 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Creates a veterans' mental health and suicide prevention task force.

2017-S4642 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2017-S4642 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4642
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 23, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. SANDERS -- 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 create a veterans' mental health and suicide  prevention  task
   force; and providing for the repeal of such provisions upon expiration
   thereof

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Legislative intent. The legislature is concerned  with  the
 health,  safety,  and  welfare  of  all returning veterans of the United
 States armed forces to New York and the high rate of mental health prob-
 lems and suicides of members of the United States armed forces.
   § 2. Veterans' suicide task force. (a) There  is  hereby  created  the
 veterans'  mental  health  and suicide prevention task force to examine,
 evaluate  and  determine  how  to  improve  mental  health  and  suicide
 prevention  for our veterans, consisting of seven members, each to serve
 until May first, two thousand seventeen.
   (b)(1) Such members shall be appointed as follows: one member shall be
 appointed by the governor; one member shall be appointed by  the  tempo-
 rary  president  of  the  senate;  one  member shall be appointed by the
 minority leader of the senate; one member  shall  be  appointed  by  the
 speaker  of  the assembly; one member shall be appointed by the minority
 leader of the assembly; one member shall be appointed by the director of
 the New York State Division of Veterans' Affairs; and one  member  shall
 be  appointed  by the commissioner of health. Appointments shall be made
 within sixty days of the effective date of this act.  Vacancies  in  the
 task  force shall be filled in the manner provided for original appoint-
 ments.
   (2) All appointees shall  have  expertise  in  fields  or  disciplines
 related  to  mental  health.  All  appointments  shall be coordinated to
 ensure geographic representation from the entire state.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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