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May 24, 2023 | referred to veterans' affairs delivered to assembly passed senate |
May 01, 2023 | advanced to third reading |
Apr 26, 2023 | 2nd report cal. |
Apr 25, 2023 | 1st report cal.639 |
Mar 03, 2023 | referred to veterans, homeland security and military affairs |
senate Bill S5416
Sponsored By
Jessica Scarcella-Spanton
(D) 23rd Senate District
Current Bill Status - Passed Senate
- Introduced
- In Committee
- On Floor Calendar
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Joseph P. Addabbo Jr
(D) 15th Senate District
S5416 (ACTIVE) - Details
S5416 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo
BILL NUMBER: S5416 SPONSOR: SCARCELLA-SPANTON TITLE OF BILL: An act to amend the veterans' services law, the military law and the civil rights law, in relation to certificates of honorable separation from or service in the armed forces of the United States PURPOSE: The purpose of this legislation is to ensure that local veterans' service agencies are notified upon the return home of service men and women in order to facilitate a better connection to services available to veterans. SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS: Section 1: Subdivisions 24 of section 353 of the executive law, as added by chapters 481 and 571 of the laws of 2019, are renumbered subdivisions 25 and 26 and adds a new subdivision requiring a certificate of release or discharge from active duty which was issued by the United States
S5416 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 5416 2023-2024 Regular Sessions I N S E N A T E March 3, 2023 ___________ Introduced by Sen. SCARCELLA-SPANTON -- 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 veterans' services law, the military law and the civil rights law, in relation to certificates of honorable separation from or service in the armed forces of the United States THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Section 4 of the veterans' services law is amended by adding a new subdivision 38 to read as follows: 38. TO RECEIVE A CERTIFICATE OF RELEASE OR DISCHARGE FROM ACTIVE DUTY WHICH WAS ISSUED BY THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT AND DELIVERED TO THE DEPARTMENT, AND SHALL FORWARD SUCH CERTIFICATE WITHIN SIXTY DAYS OF RECEIPT TO THE APPROPRIATE LOCAL VETERANS' SERVICE AGENCY, BASED UPON THE MAILING ADDRESS AFTER SEPARATION NOTED ON SUCH CERTIFICATE. SUCH TRANSMISSION MAY BE MADE ELECTRONICALLY. INFORMATION CONTAINED IN SUCH CERTIFICATES SHALL BE PROTECTED AS PERSONAL CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION UNDER ARTICLE SIX-A OF THE PUBLIC OFFICERS LAW AGAINST DISCLOSURE OF CONFIDENTIAL MATERIAL, AND USED ONLY FOR INFORMATION AND ASSISTANCE WITH REGARDS TO STATE BENEFITS AND ENTITLEMENTS UNDER FEDERAL AND STATE LAW. § 2. Section 250 of the military law, as amended by chapter 298 of the laws of 2005, is amended to read as follows: § 250. Recording certificates of honorable discharge. Any certificate issued after April sixth, nineteen hundred seventeen, of the honorable separation from or service in the armed forces of the United States of any veteran, may be recorded in any one county, in the office of the county clerk, and when so recorded shall constitute notice to all public officials of the facts set forth therein. It shall be the duty of the county clerk to record the certificate upon presentation thereof without the payment of any fee. For any purpose for which the original certif- icate may be required in the state of New York, a certified copy of the EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD02904-01-3
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