Assembly Bill A8097

Signed By Governor
2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to discharged LGBT veterans

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Archive: Last Bill Status Via S45 - Signed by Governor


  • 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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2019-A8097 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S45
Law Section:
Executive Law
Laws Affected:
Amd Various Laws, generally
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2015-2016: S6087
2017-2018: S51

2019-A8097 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to discharged LGBT veterans; defines "LGBT veteran" and "qualifying condition"; adds veterans who have qualifying conditions or who are discharged as an LGBT veteran to certain provisions that apply to veterans who have been honorably discharged or released from military service.

2019-A8097 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8097
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               May 31, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. BARRETT -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Veterans' Affairs
 
 AN ACT to amend the executive law, the civil  service  law,  the  county
   law,  the  economic  development  law, the education law, the election
   law, the general construction law,  the  general  municipal  law,  the
   military  law, the correction law, the environmental conservation law,
   the general business law, the highway  law,  the  insurance  law,  the
   judiciary law, the private housing finance law, the public health law,
   the public housing law, the public officers law, the real property tax
   law,  the  social services law, the tax law, the town law, the vehicle
   and traffic law, and the workers' compensation  law,  in  relation  to
   veterans with qualifying conditions and discharged LGBT veterans
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 350 of the executive law is amended by  adding  two
 new subdivisions 8 and 9 to read as follows:
   8. THE TERM "QUALIFYING CONDITION" MEANS A DIAGNOSIS OF POST-TRAUMATIC
 STRESS  DISORDER  OR TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY MADE BY, OR AN EXPERIENCE OF
 MILITARY SEXUAL TRAUMA, AS DESCRIBED IN 38 USC 1720D,  AS  AMENDED  FROM
 TIME  TO  TIME,  DISCLOSED  TO, AN INDIVIDUAL LICENSED TO PROVIDE HEALTH
 CARE SERVICES AT A UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS  FACILI-
 TY.  THE DIVISION SHALL DEVELOP A STANDARDIZED FORM USED TO CONFIRM THAT
 THE VETERAN HAS A QUALIFYING CONDITION UNDER THIS SUBDIVISION.
   9.  THE  TERM  "DISCHARGED  LGBT  VETERAN"  MEANS  A  VETERAN  WHO WAS
 DISCHARGED LESS THAN HONORABLY FROM MILITARY OR  NAVAL  SERVICE  DUE  TO
 THEIR  SEXUAL  ORIENTATION  OR  GENDER  IDENTITY OR EXPRESSION, AS THOSE
 TERMS ARE DEFINED IN SECTION TWO HUNDRED NINETY-TWO OF THIS CHAPTER,  OR
 STATEMENTS,  CONSENSUAL  SEXUAL  CONDUCT, OR CONSENSUAL ACTS RELATING TO
 SEXUAL ORIENTATION, GENDER IDENTITY OR EXPRESSION, OR THE DISCLOSURE  OF
 SUCH  STATEMENTS, CONDUCT, OR ACTS, THAT WERE PROHIBITED BY THE MILITARY
 OR NAVAL SERVICE AT THE TIME OF DISCHARGE. THE DIVISION SHALL  ESTABLISH
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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