Bill Text: NY A08095 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Directs the division of veterans' services to maintain a discharge upgrade advisory board program to provide written non-binding advisory opinions to veterans of the state of New York who are appealing their character of discharge from the discharge review board or the board for corrections of military or naval records for their branch of service on the federal level.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-1)

Status: (Passed) 2019-11-11 - signed chap.481 [A08095 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A08095-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8095

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      May 31, 2019
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. BARRETT -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Veterans' Affairs

        AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to directing the division
          of veterans' services to maintain a discharge advisory board

          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 24 to read as follows:
     3    24. To maintain a discharge upgrade advisory board within the division
     4  to  provide  written  non-binding  advisory  opinions to veterans of the
     5  state of New York  appealing  their  character  of  discharge  from  the
     6  discharge  review board or the board for corrections of military records
     7  for their branch of service on the federal level. Individuals may submit
     8  an application with evidence, including all  relevant  documents,  which
     9  shall  be  reviewed  by the discharge upgrade advisory board in a timely
    10  manner. If such board finds the veteran's application  for  a  discharge
    11  upgrade  is  meritorious, then the board will provide the veteran with a
    12  written opinion advocating for the discharge review board or  board  for
    13  corrections  of  military  records  to  grant that veteran's appeal. The
    14  division shall post information on the discharge upgrade advisory  board
    15  on its official webpage. The annual report required by subdivision elev-
    16  en  of this section shall contain information including, but not limited
    17  to, a listing of the members of the discharge  upgrade  advisory  board,
    18  the  number of cases reviewed, and the number of cases where a veteran's
    19  application was found to be meritorious.
    20    § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth  day  after  it  shall
    21  have become a law.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13121-01-9