senate Bill S351

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Requires a 120-day warning period for violations at certain veterans' organization facilities

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Senate Actions - UPPERCASE
May 11, 2022 referred to veterans' affairs
delivered to assembly
passed senate
May 04, 2022 advanced to third reading
May 03, 2022 2nd report cal.
May 02, 2022 1st report cal.966
Jan 05, 2022 referred to veterans, homeland security and military affairs
Jan 06, 2021 referred to veterans, homeland security and military affairs

Votes

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May 11, 2022 - floor Vote

S351
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floor
62
Aye
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Nay
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Absent
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Excused
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Abstained
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Floor Vote: May 11, 2022

aye (62)
excused (1)

May 2, 2022 - Veterans, Homeland Security and Military Affairs committee Vote

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committee
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Aye
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Nay
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Aye with Reservations
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Absent
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Excused
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Abstained
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Veterans, Homeland Security and Military Affairs Committee Vote: May 2, 2022

aye (9)

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S351 (ACTIVE) - Details

Law Section:
General Business Law
Laws Affected:
Add §397-b, Gen Bus L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2011-2012: S6414
2013-2014: S2962
2015-2016: S2495
2017-2018: S3072
2019-2020: S3106
2023-2024: S1811

S351 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires a 120-day warning period for violations at congressionally chartered veterans' organization facilities.

S351 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

S351 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    351
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 6, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sens. ADDABBO, JORDAN -- 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 general business law, in relation to requiring a one
   hundred  twenty-day  warning  period for certain violations at certain
   veterans' organization facilities
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. The general business law is amended by adding a new section
 397-b to read as follows:
   §  397-B.  WARNING  PERIOD FOR CERTAIN VIOLATIONS AT CERTAIN VETERANS'
 ORGANIZATION FACILITIES. 1. BEFORE ANY  MONETARY  FINES  ARE  ISSUED  OR
 APPLIED  BY  ANY  MUNICIPAL OR HEALTH AGENCY TO THE OWNER OR OPERATOR OF
 ANY PLACE, POST, FACILITY OR HALL OWNED OR OPERATED BY A CONGRESSIONALLY
 CHARTERED VETERANS' GROUP, A WARNING PERIOD OF ONE HUNDRED  TWENTY  DAYS
 SHALL TAKE PLACE DURING WHICH TIME SUCH GROUP SHALL BE ABLE TO CURE SUCH
 VIOLATION.    IF, AT THE END OF SUCH ONE HUNDRED TWENTY-DAY PERIOD, SUCH
 VIOLATION CONTINUES, THEN A MONETARY  FINE  MAY  BE  ISSUED  OR  APPLIED
 PROVIDED,  THAT AFTER SUCH ONE HUNDRED TWENTY-DAY PERIOD, SUCH VETERANS'
 ORGANIZATION MAY REQUEST AN EXTENSION OF TIME TO  CURE  SUCH  VIOLATION.
 SUCH  REQUEST  SHALL  BE  MADE  IN WRITING AND SHALL INCLUDE PROOF OF AN
 ATTEMPT TO CURE SUCH VIOLATION WITHIN SUCH PERIOD.   THE  PROVISIONS  OF
 THIS  SECTION  SHALL  NOT:  (A)  APPLY  TO ANY IMMINENT LIFE THREATENING
 BUILDING CODE OR HEALTH CODE VIOLATION WHICH NECESSITATES  AN  EMERGENCY
 CLOSURE  OF  A  FACILITY;  OR (B) BE CONSTRUED TO APPLY TO OR EFFECT ANY
 VIOLATION OF THE ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE CONTROL LAW MADE BY A FACILITY.
   2. FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION, THE TERM  "CONGRESSIONALLY  CHAR-
 TERED  VETERANS'  GROUP"  SHALL  MEAN  ANY VETERANS' GROUP THAT HAS BEEN
 CHARTERED BY THE UNITED STATES CONGRESS UNDER TITLE  36  OF  THE  UNITED
 STATES CODE.
   §  2.  This  act  shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
 have become a law.

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