Senate Bill S5733

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 Finance 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-S5733 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Finance
Law Section:
Veterans' Service Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §16, Veterans' Services L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
S9230

2025-S5733 (ACTIVE) - Summary

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

2025-S5733 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S5733 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5733
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 28, 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 the cost of
   maintenance and operation of local 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 veterans'
 services commission shall allot and pay, from state moneys  made  avail-
 able  to  [him or her] THE STATE COMMISSIONER for such purposes, to each
 county veterans' 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.
                                                            LBD05129-01-5

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