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Assembly Bill A10163

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to pre-release briefings for incarcerated veterans regarding available federal and state benefits

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Veterans, Homeland Security And Military Affairs Committee

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2025-A10163 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S9315
Current Committee:
Senate Veterans, Homeland Security And Military Affairs
Law Section:
Veterans' Service Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §4, Veterans' Services L

2025-A10163 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Directs the department of veterans' services to conduct pre-release briefings for incarcerated veterans regarding available federal and state benefits available to veterans and their families and how to apply for such benefits.

2025-A10163 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   10163
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 12, 2026
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. LAVINE -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Veterans' Affairs
 
 AN  ACT  to amend the veterans' services law, in relation to pre-release
   briefings for incarcerated veterans regarding  available  federal  and
   state benefits
 
   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 40 to read as follows:
   40.  TO  CONDUCT A PRE-RELEASE BRIEFING AS PART OF THE DISCHARGE PLAN-
 NING PROCESS WITH ANY INCARCERATED INDIVIDUAL WHO IS A VETERAN, PRIOR TO
 THEIR RELEASE FROM A STATE  CORRECTIONAL  INSTITUTION,  TO  EXPLAIN  AND
 SHARE  INFORMATION  RELATING  TO FEDERAL AND STATE BENEFITS AVAILABLE TO
 VETERANS AND THEIR FAMILIES AND HOW TO  APPLY  FOR  SUCH  BENEFITS.  THE
 DEPARTMENT SHALL CONSULT WITH THE DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS AND COMMUNI-
 TY SUPERVISION TO IMPLEMENT THE PROVISIONS OF THIS SECTION.
   §  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.
                                                            LBD14764-01-6

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