Assembly Actions -
Lowercase Senate Actions - UPPERCASE |
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Dec 22, 2021 |
approval memo.130 signed chap.770 |
Dec 10, 2021 |
delivered to governor |
Jun 03, 2021 |
returned to senate passed assembly ordered to third reading rules cal.331 substituted for a5836a |
Jun 03, 2021 |
substituted by s1788a |
Jun 02, 2021 |
ordered to third reading rules cal.331 rules report cal.331 reported |
May 26, 2021 |
reported referred to rules |
May 25, 2021 |
reported referred to ways and means |
May 20, 2021 |
print number 5836a |
May 20, 2021 |
amend (t) and recommit to veterans' affairs |
Feb 26, 2021 |
referred to veterans' affairs |
Assembly Bill A5836A
Signed By Governor2021-2022 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
CUSICK
Archive: Last Bill Status Via S1788 - Signed by Governor
- Introduced
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- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
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- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
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- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- Delivered to Governor
- Signed By Governor
Actions
Votes
Bill Amendments
co-Sponsors
Judy Griffin
Steven Englebright
William Colton
Jake Ashby
2021-A5836 - Details
2021-A5836 - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 5836 2021-2022 Regular Sessions I N A S S E M B L Y February 26, 2021 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. CUSICK -- read once and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs AN ACT to create a veterans' mental health and suicide prevention task force; and providing for the repeal of such provisions upon expiration thereof THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Legislative intent. The legislature is concerned with the health, safety, and welfare of all returning veterans of the United States armed forces to New York and the high rate of mental health prob- lems and suicides of members of the United States armed forces. § 2. Veterans' suicide task force. (a) There is hereby created the veterans' mental health and suicide prevention task force to examine, evaluate and determine how to improve mental health and suicide prevention for our veterans, consisting of seven members, each to serve until May first, two thousand twenty-three. (b)(1) Such members shall be appointed as follows: one member shall be appointed by the governor; one member shall be appointed by the tempo- rary president of the senate; one member shall be appointed by the minority leader of the senate; one member shall be appointed by the speaker of the assembly; one member shall be appointed by the minority leader of the assembly; one member shall be appointed by the director of the New York State Division of Veterans' Services; and one member shall be appointed by the commissioner of health. Appointments shall be made within sixty days of the effective date of this act. Vacancies in the task force shall be filled in the manner provided for original appoint- ments. (2) All appointees shall have expertise in fields or disciplines related to mental health. All appointments shall be coordinated to ensure geographic representation from the entire state. EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD04863-01-1
co-Sponsors
Judy Griffin
Steven Englebright
William Colton
Jake Ashby
2021-A5836A (ACTIVE) - Details
2021-A5836A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 5836--A 2021-2022 Regular Sessions I N A S S E M B L Y February 26, 2021 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. CUSICK, GRIFFIN -- read once and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to create a veterans' suicide prevention temporary task force; and providing for the repeal of such provisions upon expiration there- of THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Legislative intent. The legislature is concerned with the health, safety, and welfare of all returning veterans of the United States armed forces to New York and the high rate of mental health prob- lems and suicides of members of the United States armed forces. § 2. Veterans' suicide prevention temporary task force. (a) There is hereby created the veterans' temporary suicide prevention task force to examine, evaluate and determine how to improve mental health and suicide prevention for our veterans, consisting of nine members, each to serve until May first, two thousand twenty-three. (b)(1) Such members shall be appointed as follows: three members shall be appointed by the governor; two members shall be appointed by the temporary president of the senate; one member shall be appointed by the minority leader of the senate; two members shall be appointed by the speaker of the assembly; and one member shall be appointed by the minor- ity leader of the assembly. Appointments shall be made within sixty days of the effective date of this act. Vacancies in the temporary task force shall be filled in the manner provided for original appointments. (2) All appointees shall have expertise in fields or disciplines related to mental health and at least three members shall have worked with members of the military or veterans community on a professional basis. All appointments shall be coordinated to ensure geographic repre- sentation from the entire state. EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD04863-04-1
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