Senate Bill S8247

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Makes technical corrections relating to the title of the commissioner of veterans' services

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Current Bill Status Via A8475 - Passed Senate

  • 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-S8247 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A8475
Law Section:
Elder Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §202, Eld L; amd §19.07, Ment Hyg L; amd §99-v, St Fin L

2025-S8247 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Makes technical corrections relating to the title of the commissioner of veterans' services.

2025-S8247 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S8247 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8247
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               May 27, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by Sen. HARCKHAM -- 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 elder law, the mental hygiene  law,  and  the  state
   finance  law,  in relation to making technical corrections relating to
   the title of the commissioner of veterans' services
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1. Subdivision 15 of section 202 of the elder law, as amended
 by section 1 of subpart J of part XX of chapter 55 of the laws of  2020,
 is amended to read as follows:
   15. to periodically, in consultation with the state [director] COMMIS-
 SIONER of veterans' services, review the programs operated by the office
 to  ensure  that  the  needs of the state's aging veteran population are
 being met and to develop improvements to programs to meet such needs;
   § 2. Subdivision (i) of section 19.07 of the mental  hygiene  law,  as
 amended by section 31-a of part AA of chapter 56 of the laws of 2019, is
 amended to read as follows:
   (i)  The office of [alcoholism and substance abuse services] ADDICTION
 SERVICES AND SUPPORTS shall periodically, in consultation with the state
 [director] COMMISSIONER of veterans' services: (1) review  the  programs
 operated  by the office to ensure that the needs of the state's veterans
 who served in the U.S. armed forces and who are recovering from  alcohol
 and/or  substance  abuse  are  being  met and to develop improvements to
 programs to meet such needs; and (2) in  collaboration  with  the  state
 [director]  COMMISSIONER  of  veterans' services and the commissioner of
 the office of mental health, review and make recommendations to  improve
 programs that provide treatment, rehabilitation, relapse prevention, and
 recovery  services  to  veterans  who have served in a combat theatre or
 combat zone of operations and have  a  co-occurring  mental  health  and
 alcoholism or substance abuse disorder.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD13160-01-5

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