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Assembly Bill A8477

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Establishes a women veteran's peer to peer program

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2025-A8477 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Ways And Means
Law Section:
Veterans' Service Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§19 & 20, Veterans' Services L

2025-A8477 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Establishes a women veteran's peer to peer program.

2025-A8477 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8477
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               May 16, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. HUNTER -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Veterans' Affairs
 
 AN  ACT to amend the veterans' services law, in relation to establishing
   a women veteran's peer to peer program
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section  1.  Subdivision 3 of section 19 of the veterans' services law
 is amended by adding a new paragraph (k) to read as follows:
   (K) COORDINATION WITH OTHER AGENCIES, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE
 OFFICE OF MENTAL HEALTH, THE OFFICE OF ADDICTION SERVICES AND  SUPPORTS,
 THE  DEPARTMENT OF LABOR AND DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL SERVICE, FOR THE DEVEL-
 OPMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION OF A PEER  TO  PEER  SUPPORT  SERVICE  PROGRAM
 SPECIFICALLY FOR WOMEN VETERANS.
   §  2. Subparagraphs (vii) and (viii) of paragraph (a) of subdivision 9
 of section 20 of the veterans'  services  law  are  amended  and  a  new
 subparagraph (ix) is added to read as follows:
   (vii)  providing  outreach  regarding available resources for veterans
 with a qualifying condition as defined in section one of  this  article;
 [and]
   (viii)  advocating  on  behalf  of  women  veterans to ensure that the
 programs and policies of this state and of the United States  department
 of veterans' affairs remain open to women and mindful of the elements of
 the experience of a veteran that are unique to women[.]; AND
   (IX)  ESTABLISHING A WOMEN VETERAN'S PEER TO PEER PROGRAM.
   §  3.  This  act  shall  take  effect  on  the first day of April next
 succeeding the date on which it shall have  become  a  law.    Effective
 immediately,  the addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule or regu-
 lation necessary for the implementation of this  act  on  its  effective
 date are authorized to be made and completed on or before such effective
 date.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD13115-01-5

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