Bill Text: NY S03137 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Relates to veterans' health care options and requires the division of veterans' affairs to post certain information on its website.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2016-05-24 - SUBSTITUTED BY A7967B [S03137 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S03137-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         3137--B
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    February 2, 2015
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  CROCI  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Veterans, Homeland Securi-
          ty and Military Affairs -- reported  favorably  from  said  committee,
          ordered to first and second report, ordered to a third reading, passed
          by  Senate and delivered to the Assembly, recalled, vote reconsidered,
          restored to third reading, amended and  ordered  reprinted,  retaining
          its  place in the order of third reading -- recommitted to the Commit-
          tee on Veterans, Homeland Security and Military Affairs in  accordance
          with  Senate  Rule  6,  sec.  8 -- committee discharged, bill amended,
          ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
        AN ACT to amend the executive law and the public health law, in relation
          to health care options for veterans
          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 maintain a fact sheet on the division's webpage containing (a)
     4  contact information for all veterans integrated service networks located
     5  within the state and (b) current  contact  information  for  the  United
     6  States veterans health administration. The fact sheet shall be entitled,
     7  "Information  for  Veterans concerning Health Care Options" and shall be
     8  updated annually.
     9    § 2. The  public health law is amended by adding a new section  2803-u
    10  to read as follows:
    11    §  2803-u.  Disclosure  of  information for veterans concerning health
    12  care options. 1. As used in this section:
    13    "Information for Veterans concerning Health Care Options"  shall  mean
    14  the  fact sheet maintained by the division of veterans' affairs pursuant
    15  to subdivision twenty-three of section three hundred fifty-three of  the
    16  executive law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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