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Senate Bill S2582

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to the cost of maintenance and operation of local veterans' service agencies

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

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2025-S2582 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Veterans, Homeland Security And Military Affairs
Law Section:
Veterans' Service Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §16, Veterans' Services L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: S8210
2019-2020: S109
2021-2022: S3635
2023-2024: S1140

2025-S2582 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides that the state shall cover the cost of maintenance and operation of local veterans' service agencies up to certain set limits.

2025-S2582 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S2582 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   2582
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 21, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  ORTT  --  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 the  cost  of
   maintenance and operation of veterans' service agencies

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 16 of the veterans' services  law,
 is amended to read as follows:
   1.  A  local  director  shall  designate the location of the local and
 branch offices of the local veterans' service agency within [his or her]
 SUCH DIRECTOR'S jurisdiction, which offices shall be open during conven-
 ient hours. The [cost of maintenance and operation of a county veterans'
 service agency shall be a county charge and the cost of maintenance  and
 operation  of  a  city  veterans' service agency shall be a city charge,
 excepting that the] state commissioner with the approval of  the  veter-
 ans'  services  commission  shall  allot and pay, from state moneys made
 available to [him or her] THEM for such purposes, to each county  veter-
 ans'  service  agency  and each city veterans' service agency, an amount
 equal to [fifty per centum of]  its  expenditures  for  maintenance  and
 operation  approved by the state commissioner, provided that in no event
 shall the amount  allotted  and  paid  for  such  approved  expenditures
 incurred  in  any given year exceed (1) in the case of any county veter-
 ans' service agency in a county having a population of not more than one
 hundred thousand or in the case of any city veterans' service agency  in
 a  city  having  a population of not more than one hundred thousand, the
 sum of twenty-five thousand dollars, nor (2) in the case of  any  county
 veterans'  service  agency  in a county having a population in excess of
 one hundred thousand excluding the population of any city therein  which
 has  a  city  veterans'  service agency, the sum of twenty-five thousand
 dollars, and, in addition thereto, the sum of five thousand dollars  for
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD06871-01-5

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