Bill Text: NY A10609 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires the department of labor create and maintain a list of available careers and job openings for veterans in the state of New York and provide such list to the department of veterans' services; requires such list to be placed on the department of veterans' services website.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-06-20 - referred to labor [A10609 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A10609-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          10609

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      June 20, 2024
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Hunter) --
          read once and referred to the Committee on Labor

        AN ACT to amend the  labor  law  and  the  veterans'  services  law,  in
          relation to requiring the department of labor to create and maintain a
          list of available careers and job listings in the state for veterans

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

     1    Section 1. The labor law is amended by adding a new section 45 to read
     2  as follows:
     3    § 45. Career and job opportunities for veterans. 1. For  the  purposes
     4  of  this  section, "veteran" shall have the same meaning as such term is
     5  defined in section thirty-two of the veterans' services law.
     6    2. The commissioner shall create and  maintain  a  list  of  available
     7  careers  and  job  listings  in  the state of New York for veterans. The
     8  commissioner shall provide such list  to  the  department  of  veterans'
     9  services  and  shall update such list as necessary to ensure such career
    10  and job listings are current.  Such list shall be  conspicuously  placed
    11  on the department of veterans' services website.
    12    §  2.  Subdivision  13  of section 4 of the veterans' services law, is
    13  amended to read as follows:
    14    13. To provide information regarding resources that are  available  to
    15  assist  veterans  in  obtaining  employment  by  maintaining a veterans'
    16  employment portal on the  department's  internet  website.  Such  portal
    17  shall  provide virtual links to appropriate governmental programs on the
    18  federal and state level, including, but not limited to the United States
    19  department of labor and the New York state  department  of  labor  which
    20  shall provide the department a list of available career and job listings
    21  for  veterans in accordance with the provisions of section forty-five of
    22  the labor law. The department may consult with members of the  community
    23  devoted to helping veterans obtain employment. The department shall make
    24  reference  to  this  information pursuant to subdivisions five, six, and
    25  seven of this section and the annual report  to  the  governor  and  the
    26  legislature  as  provided in subdivision seventeen of this section. Such
    27  information required under this  subdivision  shall  be  maintained  and
    28  updated  annually. The information may also be made available in printed
    29  form.
    30    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.

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