Bill Text: NY S06523 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Requires the department of veterans' services to establish and maintain, in consultation and collaboration with other state agencies, a searchable database on the department's website providing resources available in the state for veterans, members of the uniformed services, and their families.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Engrossed) 2024-06-04 - SUBSTITUTED BY A7701A [S06523 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-S06523-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 6523--A 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN SENATE April 25, 2023 ___________ Introduced by Sens. SCARCELLA-SPANTON, ASHBY, HARCKHAM, STEC, WEBB -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Veterans, Homeland Security and Military Affairs -- recommitted to the Committee on Veterans, Homeland Security and Mili- tary Affairs in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- reported favorably from said committee and committed to the Committee on Finance -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the veterans' services law, in relation to directing the department of veterans' services to establish and maintain, in consul- tation and collaboration with other state agencies, a searchable data- base of resources available in the state for veterans, members of the uniformed services, and their families The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 4 of the veterans' services law is amended by 2 adding a new subdivision 39 to read as follows: 3 39. (a) To establish and maintain, in consultation and collaboration 4 with other state agencies including, but not limited to, the office of 5 mental health, the department of health, the office of general services, 6 the department of labor, the department of state, and the department of 7 financial services, a searchable database of resources available in the 8 state for veterans, members of the uniformed services, and their fami- 9 lies. Such database shall include but not be limited to: 10 (1) general information about and contact information for resources 11 available through federal, state, and local government agencies and 12 other organizations including, but not limited to, those relating to 13 veterans' benefits, healthcare, housing, employment, veteran-owned busi- 14 nesses, survivor benefits, substance use disorder treatment, physical 15 disabilities, educational and job benefits, tuition assistance programs, EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD10853-05-4S. 6523--A 2 1 health and mental health referrals, real property tax exemptions, 2 suicide prevention, and peer outreach and support; 3 (2) information about the department's mobile application, established 4 under subdivision twenty-one of this section; and 5 (3) links to the department's small business portal, established under 6 subdivision twelve of this section, the department's veterans' employ- 7 ment portal, established under subdivision thirteen of this section, the 8 department's mental health, substance abuse, and physical disabilities 9 portals, established under subdivision twenty-seven of this section, and 10 the department's military sexual trauma portal, established under subdi- 11 vision thirty-two of this section. 12 (b) The database created pursuant to this subdivision shall be made 13 available on the department's website and shall be reviewed and updated 14 at least annually. 15 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after 16 it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amend- 17 ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen- 18 tation of this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and 19 completed on or before such effective date.
