Senate Bill S4889

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to defining veteran

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Current Bill Status - In Assembly Committee

  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2025-S4889 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A7520
Current Committee:
Assembly Veterans' Affairs
Law Section:
Veterans' Service Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §1, Veterans' Services L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
S7683, A8113

2025-S4889 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to defining veteran; includes national guard members who have served for at least twenty years, part of which was during any war or period of hostilities.

2025-S4889 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S4889 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4889
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 13, 2025
                                ___________
 
 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, in relation to defining
   veteran
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 1 of the veterans' services law is
 amended to read as follows:
   3.  The term "veteran" means a person who served on active duty in the
 uniformed services of the United States,  or  WHO  SERVED  in  the  army
 national  guard,  air  national  guard, NEW YORK GUARD OR NEW YORK NAVAL
 MILITIA FOR AT LEAST TWENTY YEARS OF SERVICE, PART OF WHICH  WAS  DURING
 ANY  WAR  OR PERIOD OF HOSTILITIES, or service as a commissioned officer
 in the public health  service,  commissioned  officer  of  the  national
 oceanic   and   atmospheric  administration  or  environmental  sciences
 services administration, cadet at a United States armed  forces  service
 academy,  and  who  has been released from such service under other than
 dishonorable conditions.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD09182-01-5

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