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Senate Bill S9940

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Creates a women veterans history trail

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

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2025-S9940 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A8061
Current Committee:
Senate Veterans, Homeland Security And Military Affairs
Law Section:
Veterans' Service Law
Laws Affected:
Add §20-a, Veterans' Services L

2025-S9940 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Creates a women veterans history trail in order to recognize and celebrate the history of women in service.

2025-S9940 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S9940 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   9940
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              April 16, 2026
                                ___________
 
 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 creating a
   women veterans history trail in order to recognize and  celebrate  the
   history of women in service

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. The veterans' services law  is  amended  by  adding  a  new
 section 20-a to read as follows:
   §  20-A. WOMEN VETERANS HISTORY TRAIL. 1. THE DEPARTMENT SHALL DEVELOP
 AND DESIGNATE A WOMEN VETERANS HISTORY TRAIL IN  CONSULTATION  WITH  THE
 DIRECTOR  OF  THE  NEW  YORK STATE MILITARY MUSEUM AND VETERANS RESOURCE
 CENTER, THE COMMISSIONER OF THE OFFICE OF PARKS, RECREATION AND HISTORIC
 PRESERVATION, AND THE STATE HISTORIAN.
   2. THE WOMEN VETERANS HISTORY TRAIL SHALL INCLUDE, BUT NOT BE  LIMITED
 TO, MUSEUMS, MEMORIALS, BATTLE SITES, HISTORIC HOMES, AND ANY OTHER ITEM
 THAT THE COMMISSIONER MAY APPROVE.
   3. THE COMMISSIONER SHALL ISSUE, ON BEHALF OF THE DEPARTMENT, A PUBLIC
 REQUEST  FOR INFORMATION FOR ANY COUNTY, CITY, TOWN, OR VILLAGE DESIRING
 TO HAVE ANY MUNICIPALITY, HISTORIC SITE OR INSTITUTION TO BE INCLUDED IN
 THE TRAIL. INDIVIDUALS AND ORGANIZATIONS, INCLUDING BUT NOT  LIMITED  TO
 LOCAL  VETERANS'  SERVICE  AGENCIES OR CONGRESSIONAL CHARTERED VETERANS'
 SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS, MAY PROVIDE RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THE INCLUSION  OF
 THE TRAIL.
   4.  THE DEPARTMENT SHALL DEVELOP A METHOD OF POSTING INFORMATION ABOUT
 THE TRAIL ESTABLISHED PURSUANT TO THIS SECTION PUBLICLY,  INCLUDING  BUT
 NOT  LIMITED  TO  THE  DEPARTMENT'S  WEBSITE, A FREE MOBILE APPLICATION,
 PRESS RELEASES, AND THE DIGITAL VETERANS' WELCOME KIOSKS LOCATED  STATE-
 WIDE.
   §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
 have become a law.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD11649-01-5

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