Bill Text: NY A08125 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Establishes the "Vets to Vollies" program which encourages veterans or discharged military personnel to join their local fire department and emergency medical service agency.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 24-1)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to veterans' affairs [A08125 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A08125-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8125

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    October 13, 2023
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        Introduced  by M. of A. DURSO -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Veterans' Affairs

        AN ACT to amend the veterans' services law, in relation to  establishing
          the "Vets to Vollies" program

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

     1    Section 1. The veterans' services law  is  amended  by  adding  a  new
     2  section 29-b to read as follows:
     3    §  29-b.  Vets  to vollies. 1. The department shall create a statewide
     4  vets to vollies program for counties that wish to  participate  in  such
     5  program.    The  purpose  of  such  program  is to encourage veterans or
     6  recently discharged military personnel to join their local fire  depart-
     7  ment or emergency medical service agency.
     8    2.  Such  program shall collaborate and coordinate with all applicable
     9  county agencies to conduct extensive outreach programs at  active  mili-
    10  tary   installations  and  local  veteran  service  organizations.  Such
    11  outreach programs shall discuss the many benefits available to potential
    12  first responders on a local  and  statewide  level  and  how  to  become
    13  involved.
    14    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13288-01-3