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Senate Bill S10540

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Establishes a women veteran's peer to peer program

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2025-S10540 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A8477
Current Committee:
Senate Veterans, Homeland Security And Military Affairs
Law Section:
Veterans' Service Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§19 & 20, Veterans' Services L

2025-S10540 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Establishes a women veteran's peer to peer program.

2025-S10540 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S10540 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   10540
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               May 19, 2026
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  PARKER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Veterans, Homeland Securi-
   ty and Military 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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