Senate Bill S5706

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Relates to creating a veterans' jobs website

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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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2021-S5706 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Veterans, Homeland Security And Military Affairs
Law Section:
Executive Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §353, Exec L; amd §21, Lab L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2015-2016: S5022
2017-2018: S3701
2019-2020: S3244

2021-S5706 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to creating a veterans' jobs website.

2021-S5706 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2021-S5706 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5706
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              March 16, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  COMRIE -- 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 and the  labor  law,  in  relation  to
   creating a veterans' jobs website

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivisions 24 and 25 of section 353 of the executive law,
 subdivisions 24 as added by chapters 481 and 571 of the  laws  of  2019,
 are  renumbered  subdivisions 25, 26, and 27 and a new subdivision 28 is
 added to read as follows:
   28. TO DEVELOP, JOINTLY WITH THE COMMISSIONER OF LABOR, A WEBSITE WITH
 JOB LISTINGS, JOB TRAINING MATERIALS, AND JOB SEARCH INFORMATION  EXCLU-
 SIVELY  FOR  VETERANS,  CARE GIVERS FOR DISABLED VETERANS, THE IMMEDIATE
 FAMILY MEMBERS OF DISABLED VETERANS  AND  IMMEDIATE  FAMILY  MEMBERS  OF
 ACTIVE  DUTY  MILITARY  STATIONED IN NEW YORK. THE WEBSITE SHALL CONTAIN
 EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES THAT ARE ONLY AVAILABLE  THROUGH  THIS  WEBSITE
 AND NOT AVAILABLE ON ANY OTHER WEBSITE, JOB LISTING, BOARD, NEWSPAPER OR
 FORUM.  THE  WEBSITE  SHALL  BE INTERACTIVE WHERE APPLICANTS CAN PROVIDE
 RESUMES OR COMPLETE JOB APPLICATIONS  AND  CHECK  THE  STATUS  OF  THEIR
 APPLICATIONS AND REPORT THE OUTCOMES OF THEIR JOB SEARCHES.  THE COMMIS-
 SIONER AND THE COMMISSIONER OF LABOR SHALL DEVELOP A PROCESS FOR PROVID-
 ING  EXCLUSIVE  ACCESS TO THE WEBSITE TO VETERANS, CARE GIVERS FOR DISA-
 BLED VETERANS AND IMMEDIATE  FAMILY  MEMBERS  OF  ACTIVE  DUTY  MILITARY
 STATIONED IN NEW YORK.
   §  2.  Section 21 of the labor law is amended by adding a new subdivi-
 sion 16 to read as follows:
   16. SHALL WORK WITH THE COMMISSIONER OF VETERANS' AFFAIRS TO DEVELOP A
 WEBSITE AS SET FORTH IN SECTION THREE HUNDRED FIFTY-THREE OF THE  EXECU-
 TIVE LAW. IN ADDITION, THE COMMISSIONER SHALL PREPARE A REPORT ANALYZING
 THE CURRENT EMPLOYMENT OF VETERANS, THE CARE GIVERS OF DISABLED VETERANS
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

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