Senate Bill S5819

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to the definition of veteran

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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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2019-S5819 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A7573
Current Committee:
Senate Veterans, Homeland Security And Military Affairs
Law Section:
Executive Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §357, Exec L

2019-S5819 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Clarifies the definition of "veteran" to also include an individual with a DD Form 214, Certificate of Release or Discharge from Active Duty.

2019-S5819 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2019-S5819 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5819
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               May 15, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. METZGER -- 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 amend the executive law, in  relation  to  the  definition  of
   "veteran"
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivisions 1 and 2 of section 357 of the  executive  law,
 subdivision  1 as amended by chapter 43 of the laws of 1996, are amended
 to read as follows:
   1. County veterans' service agencies. There  shall  be  established  a
 county veterans' service agency in each county not wholly included with-
 in a city, and there shall be a county director of each county veterans'
 service  agency.  Any  county director hired after the effective date of
 this statute shall be a veteran [as defined in New York state  statute];
 PROVIDED  HOWEVER,  FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION, A VETERAN MAY ALSO
 INCLUDE AN INDIVIDUAL WITH A DD FORM  214,  CERTIFICATE  OF  RELEASE  OR
 DISCHARGE  FROM  ACTIVE DUTY. The [chairman] CHAIRPERSON of the board of
 supervisors of a county, with the approval of the board of  supervisors,
 shall appoint and may at pleasure remove a county director of the county
 veterans'  service  agency  for such county. In a county having a county
 president, a county executive or other  chief  executive  officer,  such
 president  or executive officer shall appoint and may at pleasure remove
 a county director. The county director may be paid such compensation  as
 shall  be  fixed by the appointing officer and the board of supervisors.
 The county director shall appoint such assistants and employees as he OR
 SHE may deem necessary, other than those, if any, supplied by the state;
 he OR SHE may prescribe the duties of those appointed by him OR HER  and
 fix  their  salaries  within  the appropriations made available for that
 purpose by the county and may at pleasure remove any such assistants  or
 employees.  The  county  director shall have jurisdiction throughout the
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

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