Bill Text: NY S05991 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Increases the duties of the women veterans coordinator to include: advocating for all women veterans in the state; and the inclusion of the contributions women veterans have made on behalf of the United States and this state on the division's official website.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2019-11-11 - approval memo.16 [S05991 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S05991-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5991

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                      May 16, 2019
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  KAPLAN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Veterans, Homeland Securi-
          ty and Military Affairs

        AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation  to  the  women  veterans
          coordinator

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

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 361-b of  the  executive  law,  as
     2  amended  by  chapter  515  of  the  laws  of 2011, is amended to read as
     3  follows:
     4    3. Establishment of women veterans coordinator. There is hereby estab-
     5  lished within the division, a "women  veterans  coordinator"  who  shall
     6  work under the direction of the director and whose duties shall include,
     7  but not be limited to, the:
     8    (a)  identification,  development,  planning, organization and coordi-
     9  nation of all statewide programs and services to meet the needs of women
    10  veterans;
    11    (b) recommendation to the  director  to  ensure  compliance  with  all
    12  existing  division  policies  and regulations pertaining to the needs of
    13  women veterans on the state and federal level and  make  recommendations
    14  regarding the improvement of benefits and services to women veterans;
    15    (c)  liaison  between  the  division,  the United States department of
    16  veterans affairs center for women veterans, the United States department
    17  of veterans affairs advisory committee on women veterans, state veterans
    18  nursing homes, state agencies, community  groups,  advocates  and  other
    19  veterans and military organizations and interested parties;
    20    (d) advocating for all women veterans in the state;
    21    (e) development and maintenance of a clearinghouse for information and
    22  resources for women veterans;
    23    [(e)]  (f)  promote  events and activities that recognize, educate and
    24  honor women veterans, including but not  limited  to  seminars  required

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11609-02-9
        S. 5991                             2

     1  under  subdivision  four-b  of section three hundred fifty-three of this
     2  article,  veteran  human  rights  conferences,  veterans  benefits   and
     3  resources events, and veterans cultural competence training;
     4    (g)  inclusion of the contributions women veterans have made on behalf
     5  of the United States and this state on the division's official  website;
     6  and
     7    [(f)]  (h) preparation of reports on topics including, but not limited
     8  to, the demographics of women veterans, the  number  of  women  veterans
     9  listed  by county, and the unique needs of the women veterans population
    10  to the director on the status of women veterans within New York state.
    11    § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
    12  have become a law.