Bill Text: NY S06467 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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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

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6467

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                      June 12, 2019
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        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.
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