S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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8113
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
October 13, 2023
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Introduced by M. of A. JEAN-PIERRE -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Veterans' Affairs
AN ACT to amend the veterans' services law, in relation to defining
veteran
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 1 of the veterans' services law is
amended to read as follows:
3. The term "veteran" means a person who served on active duty in the
uniformed services of the United States, or WHO SERVED in the army
national guard, air national guard, NEW YORK GUARD OR NEW YORK NAVAL
MILITIA FOR AT LEAST TWENTY YEARS OF SERVICE, PART OF WHICH WAS DURING
ANY WAR OR PERIOD OF HOSTILITIES, or service as a commissioned officer
in the public health service, commissioned officer of the national
oceanic and atmospheric administration or environmental sciences
services administration, cadet at a United States armed forces service
academy, and who has been released from such service under other than
dishonorable conditions.
§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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