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Assembly Bill A7395

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Changes to the beginning date of the Viet Nam war from February 28, 1961 to November 1, 1955

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2021-A7395 (ACTIVE) - Details

Law Section:
Public Housing Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §156, Pub Hous L; amd §168, Soc Serv L

2021-A7395 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Conforms the definition of a veteran serving the Vietnam war area to nearly enacted federal law (H.R. 7105) for veterans who served in-country in the Republic of Vietnam from between February 28, 1961 and April 30, 1975, to any active duty service in the Republic of Vietnam that occurred between November 1, 1955 and April 3, 1975 for the purposes of certain veteran assistance.

2021-A7395 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7395
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                                May 6, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. BARRETT -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Veterans' Affairs
 
 AN ACT to amend the public housing law and the social services  law,  in
   relation to conforming the definition of a veteran serving the Vietnam
   war  area  to  nearly enacted federal law (H.R. 7105) for veterans who
   served in-country in the Republic of Vietnam from between February 28,
   1961 and April 30, 1975, to any active duty service in the Republic of
   Vietnam that occurred between November 1, 1955 and April 3, 1975
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subparagraph 1 of paragraph b of subdivision 1 of section
 156 of the public housing law, as amended by chapter 179 of the laws  of
 2006, is amended to read as follows:
   (1)  have served in the armed forces of the United States for a period
 of at least six months (or any shorter period which  terminated  due  to
 death  or injury incurred in such service), provided some portion of the
 period of service was between the [twenty-eighth day of February,  nine-
 teen  hundred  sixty-one] FIRST OF NOVEMBER, NINETEEN HUNDRED FIFTY-FIVE
 to the seventh day of May, nineteen hundred seventy-five, and
   § 2. Paragraph 7 of  subdivision  2  of  section  168  of  the  social
 services  law, as amended by chapter 179 of the laws of 2006, is amended
 to read follows:
   (7) Viet Nam conflict; from the [twenty-eighth day of February,  nine-
 teen  hundred  sixty-one] FIRST OF NOVEMBER, NINETEEN HUNDRED FIFTY-FIVE
 to and including the seventh day of May, nineteen hundred seventy-five.
   § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD11047-01-1

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