Bill Text: NY S06467 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Directs the division of veterans' services to maintain a discharge upgrade advisory board program to provide written non-binding advisory opinions to veterans of the state of New York who are appealing their character of discharge from the discharge review board or the board for corrections of military or naval records for their branch of service on the federal level.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2019-11-11 - signed chap.481 [S06467 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-S06467-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 6467 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN SENATE June 12, 2019 ___________ Introduced by Sen. BROOKS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to directing the division of veterans' services to maintain a discharge upgrade advisory board program 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 24 to read as follows: 3 24. To maintain a discharge upgrade advisory board program within the 4 division to provide written non-binding advisory opinions to veterans of 5 the state of New York appealing their character of discharge from the 6 discharge review board or the board for corrections of military records 7 for their branch of service on the federal level. Individuals may submit 8 an application with evidence, including all relevant documents, which 9 shall be reviewed by the discharge upgrade advisory board program in a 10 timely manner. If such board finds the veteran's application for a 11 discharge upgrade is meritorious, then the board will provide the veter- 12 an with a written opinion advocating for the discharge review board or 13 board for corrections of military or naval records to grant that veter- 14 an's appeal. The division shall post information on the discharge 15 upgrade advisory board program on its official webpage. The annual 16 report required by subdivision eleven of this section shall contain 17 information including, but not limited to, the number of cases reviewed, 18 and the number of cases where a veteran's application was found to be 19 meritorious. 20 § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall 21 have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD13121-03-9