Bill Text: NY A00587 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 587 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Requires the division of veterans' affairs to maintain mental health, substance abuse and physical disabilities portals on its website; repeals provisions providing for a New York state interagency plan addressing needs of veterans and their families.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Passed) 2013-06-19 - signed chap.48 [A00587 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-A00587-Introduced.html

                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                          587
                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                      (PREFILED)
                                    January 9, 2013
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       Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  MAGNARELLI  -- read once and referred to the
         Committee on Veterans' Affairs
       AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to requiring the division
         of veterans' affairs to maintain mental health,  substance  abuse  and
         physical  disabilities  portals on its website; and to repeal subdivi-
         sions 6 and 7 of section 352 of the  executive  law,  relating  to  an
         interagency plan addressing needs of veterans and their families
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Section 353 of the executive law is amended by adding a new
    2  subdivision 21 to read as follows:
    3    21. TO PROVIDE INFORMATION REGARDING RESOURCES THAT ARE  AVAILABLE  TO
    4  ASSIST  VETERANS  WHO  EXPERIENCE MENTAL HEALTH OR SUBSTANCE ABUSE PROB-
    5  LEMS, AND VETERANS WITH PHYSICAL  DISABILITIES,  BY  MAINTAINING  MENTAL
    6  HEALTH,  SUBSTANCE  ABUSE AND PHYSICAL DISABILITIES PORTALS ON THE DIVI-
    7  SION'S INTERNET WEBSITE. SUCH PORTALS SHALL  PROVIDE  VIRTUAL  LINKS  TO
    8  APPROPRIATE  GOVERNMENTAL  PROGRAMS  ON THE FEDERAL AND STATE LEVELS AND
    9  INFORMATION ON  SUICIDE  PREVENTION,  PEER  OUTREACH  AND  SUPPORT,  AND
   10  SERVICES THAT ADDRESS THE SPECIAL NEEDS OF PHYSICALLY DISABLED VETERANS.
   11  THE DIVISION MAY CONSULT WITH THE OFFICE OF MENTAL HEALTH, THE OFFICE OF
   12  ALCOHOLISM  AND  SUBSTANCE  ABUSE SERVICES, THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
   13  THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR. THE  DIVISION  SHALL  MAKE  REFERENCE  TO  THIS
   14  INFORMATION  PROVIDED PURSUANT TO SUBDIVISIONS FOUR-A AND FOUR-B OF THIS
   15  SECTION AND IN THE ANNUAL REPORT TO THE  GOVERNOR  AND  THE  LEGISLATURE
   16  REQUIRED  PURSUANT  TO SUBDIVISION ELEVEN OF THIS SECTION. SUCH INFORMA-
   17  TION REQUIRED UNDER THIS SUBDIVISION SHALL  BE  MAINTAINED  AND  UPDATED
   18  ANNUALLY.
   19    S  2.  Subdivisions  6  and  7 of section 352 of the executive law are
   20  REPEALED.
   21    S 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD04285-01-3