Assembly Bill A2203

Signed By Governor
2021-2022 Legislative Session

Relates to veterans' services for post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury

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  • 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-A2203 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S4971
Law Section:
Executive Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §353, Exec L
Versions Introduced in 2019-2020 Legislative Session:
A8114, S8818

2021-A2203 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Directs the division of veterans' services to provide information regarding resources that are available to assist veterans who experience post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury (TBI); directs portals on the division's internet website.

2021-A2203 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   2203
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 14, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. BARRETT, WALLACE -- read once and referred to the
   Committee on Veterans' Affairs
 
 AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to directing the division
   of  veterans'  services to provide information to veterans who experi-
   ence post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivision  21  of  section 353 of the executive law, as
 added by chapter 48 of the laws of 2013, is amended to read as follows:
   21. To provide information regarding resources that are  available  to
 assist  veterans  who  experience mental health or substance abuse prob-
 lems, and veterans with physical  disabilities,  by  maintaining  mental
 health,  substance  abuse and physical disabilities portals on the divi-
 sion's internet website. Such portals shall  provide  virtual  links  to
 appropriate  governmental  programs  on the federal and state levels and
 information on suicide prevention, TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY  (TBI),  POST-
 TRAUMATIC  STRESS  DISORDER  (PTSD),  peer  outreach  and  support,  and
 services that address the special needs of physically disabled veterans.
 The division may consult with the office of mental health, the office of
 alcoholism and substance abuse services, the department  of  health  and
 the  department  of  labor.  The  division  shall make reference to this
 information provided pursuant to subdivisions four-a and four-b of  this
 section  and  in  the  annual report to the governor and the legislature
 required pursuant to subdivision eleven of this section.  Such  informa-
 tion  required  under  this  subdivision shall be maintained and updated
 annually.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth  day  after  it  shall
 have become a law.
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD05226-01-1

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