Bill Text: NY A05832 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Relates to providing benefit information to a national guard member.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Passed) 2022-08-08 - signed chap.483 [A05832 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A05832-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         5832--A

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 26, 2021
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        Introduced by M. of A. BUTTENSCHON, JACKSON -- read once and referred to
          the  Committee on Veterans' Affairs -- recommitted to the Committee on
          Veterans' Affairs in accordance  with  Assembly  Rule  3,  sec.  2  --
          committee  discharged,  bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and
          recommitted to said committee

        AN ACT to amend the military  law,  in  relation  to  providing  benefit
          information to a national guard member

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

     1    Section 1.  The military law is amended by adding a new section 255 to
     2  read as follows:
     3    § 255. Benefit information for national guard members and families.
     4    1. For the purpose of this section, "military service" shall have  the
     5  same meaning as defined in section three hundred one of this chapter.
     6    2.  The  division  of  military and naval affairs shall make available
     7  state and federal benefit information for  national  guard  members  and
     8  their  spouses,  domestic partners, children, and parents, including but
     9  not limited to, information  from  the  state  family  support  services
    10  program.   Such benefit information shall be made available in a printed
    11  version and posted electronically on such division's website.
    12    § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth  day  after  it  shall
    13  have become a law.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD04627-04-2