Bill Text: NY A03725 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Directs the division of veterans' services to conduct a study on converting the division of veterans' services to an administrative agency independent of the executive department.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 7-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - referred to veterans' affairs [A03725 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A03725-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          3725

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 28, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M.  of A. ASHBY, MORINELLO, NORRIS, PALMESANO, FRIEND --
          read once and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs

        AN ACT in relation to directing the division of  veterans'  services  to
          conduct a study on converting the division of veterans' services to an
          administrative  agency  independent  of  the executive department; and
          providing for the repeal of such provisions upon expiration thereof

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.  1. (a) The division of veterans' services shall conduct a
     2  study on converting the division of veterans' services into an  adminis-
     3  trative agency independent of the executive department.
     4    (b) Such study shall include, but not be limited to:
     5    (i)  replacing the director of veterans' services with a cabinet-level
     6  commissioner of veterans' services;
     7    (ii) what effects, if any, such conversion would have on the  veterans
     8  living in New York state;
     9    (iii)  determining  which  current  veterans  programs operated by the
    10  state could be assumed by the division upon conversion to an administra-
    11  tive agency; and
    12    (iv) the costs associated with conversion  of  the  division  into  an
    13  administrative agency.
    14    2.  On  or  before  one  year from the effective date of this act, the
    15  division of veterans' services shall submit such study to the  governor,
    16  the  temporary president of the senate, the speaker of the assembly, all
    17  members of the senate committee on veterans, homeland security and mili-
    18  tary affairs, and the assembly committee on veterans' affairs.
    19    3. The division of veterans' services may request, and  is  authorized
    20  to  receive,  any information from any state agency that is relevant and
    21  material to the completion of such study. Such information  received  by
    22  the division of veterans' services shall be subject to the same require-
    23  ments  for confidentiality and limitations on use, if any, as are appli-
    24  cable to such state agency's use of such information.
    25    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall  expire  and  be
    26  deemed repealed one year after such effective date.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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