Bill Text: NY A10692 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Directs the division of veterans' affairs to establish and operate an electronic database of the number of openings in each of the 5 state veterans' homes and the number of persons on the waiting list for each such veterans' home.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-06-13 - referred to veterans' affairs [A10692 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A10692-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          10692
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                      June 13, 2016
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        Introduced  by  COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Miller) --
          read once and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs
        AN ACT to amend the executive law, the public health law and the  educa-
          tion  law,  in relation to directing the division of veterans' affairs
          to establish and operate a publicly accessible electronic database  of
          the availability of openings for admission to state veterans' homes
          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 23 to read as follows:
     3    23. To, in consultation and cooperation with the department of  health
     4  and  the state university of New York, establish and operate an internet
     5  website electronic database, accessible to the  public,  which  provides
     6  the  number of available openings for eligible individuals at each state
     7  veterans' home operated pursuant to article twenty-six-A of  the  public
     8  health  law  and  at  the  Long Island state veterans' home at the state
     9  university of New York at Stony  Brook.  In  addition,  such  electronic
    10  database  shall,  for  each  such  veterans' home, provide the number of
    11  eligible individuals who are on the waiting list for  admission  to  the
    12  state  veterans'  home.  The  division, the department of health and the
    13  state university of New York shall jointly ensure that  the  information
    14  posted  on the electronic database established pursuant to this subdivi-
    15  sion is maintained and updated on a real time basis as such  information
    16  changes.
    17    §  2. The public health law is amended by adding a new section 2636 to
    18  read as follows:
    19    § 2636. State veterans' home electronic database. The department shall
    20  fully cooperate with the division of veterans' affairs to establish  and
    21  operate the electronic database provided for in subdivision twenty-three
    22  of  section  three hundred fifty-three of the executive law, and provide
    23  information relating to the state veterans' homes operated  pursuant  to
    24  this article to such division on a real time basis.
    25    §  3.  Section  355  of  the  education law is amended by adding a new
    26  subdivision 20 to read as follows:
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1    20. State veterans' home electronic  database.  The  state  university
     2  shall  fully  cooperate with the division of veterans' affairs to estab-
     3  lish and operate the electronic database  provided  for  in  subdivision
     4  twenty-three  of section three hundred fifty-three of the executive law,
     5  and provide information relating to the Long Island state veterans' home
     6  at the state university of New York at Stony Brook to such division on a
     7  real time basis.
     8    § 4. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
     9  it shall have become a law. Provided, however that, effective immediate-
    10  ly, any actions necessary to implement the provisions of this act on its
    11  effective  date are authorized and directed to be completed on or before
    12  such date.