Assembly Bill A10692

2015-2016 Legislative Session

Directs the division of veterans' affairs to establish and operate an electronic database of the number of openings in each of the 5 state veterans' homes and the number of persons on the waiting lists

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2015-A10692 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S7480
Current Committee:
Assembly Veterans
Law Section:
Executive Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §353, Exec L; add §2636, Pub Health L; amd §355, Ed L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: A630, S307
2019-2020: A797, S4108
2021-2022: S3641
2023-2024: S1409
2025-2026: S3023

2015-A10692 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Directs the division of veterans' affairs to establish and operate an electronic database of the number of openings in each of the 5 state veterans' homes and the number of persons on the waiting list for each such veterans' home.

2015-A10692 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  10692

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                              June 13, 2016
                               ___________

Introduced  by  COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Miller) --
  read once and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs

AN ACT to amend the executive law, the public health law and the  educa-
  tion  law,  in relation to directing the division of veterans' affairs
  to establish and operate a publicly accessible electronic database  of
  the availability of openings for admission to state veterans' homes

  THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1. Section 353 of the executive law is amended by adding a new
subdivision 23 to read as follows:
  23. TO, IN CONSULTATION AND COOPERATION WITH THE DEPARTMENT OF  HEALTH
AND  THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, ESTABLISH AND OPERATE AN INTERNET
WEBSITE ELECTRONIC DATABASE, ACCESSIBLE TO THE  PUBLIC,  WHICH  PROVIDES
THE  NUMBER OF AVAILABLE OPENINGS FOR ELIGIBLE INDIVIDUALS AT EACH STATE
VETERANS' HOME OPERATED PURSUANT TO ARTICLE TWENTY-SIX-A OF  THE  PUBLIC
HEALTH  LAW  AND  AT  THE  LONG ISLAND STATE VETERANS' HOME AT THE STATE
UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT STONY  BROOK.  IN  ADDITION,  SUCH  ELECTRONIC
DATABASE  SHALL,  FOR  EACH  SUCH  VETERANS' HOME, PROVIDE THE NUMBER OF
ELIGIBLE INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE ON THE WAITING LIST FOR  ADMISSION  TO  THE
STATE  VETERANS'  HOME.  THE  DIVISION, THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND THE
STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK SHALL JOINTLY ENSURE THAT  THE  INFORMATION
POSTED  ON THE ELECTRONIC DATABASE ESTABLISHED PURSUANT TO THIS SUBDIVI-
SION IS MAINTAINED AND UPDATED ON A REAL TIME BASIS AS SUCH  INFORMATION
CHANGES.
  S  2. The public health law is amended by adding a new section 2636 to
read as follows:
  S 2636. STATE VETERANS' HOME ELECTRONIC DATABASE. THE DEPARTMENT SHALL
FULLY COOPERATE WITH THE DIVISION OF VETERANS' AFFAIRS TO ESTABLISH  AND
OPERATE THE ELECTRONIC DATABASE PROVIDED FOR IN SUBDIVISION TWENTY-THREE
OF  SECTION  THREE HUNDRED FIFTY-THREE OF THE EXECUTIVE LAW, AND PROVIDE
INFORMATION RELATING TO THE STATE VETERANS' HOMES OPERATED  PURSUANT  TO
THIS ARTICLE TO SUCH DIVISION ON A REAL TIME BASIS.
  S  3.  Section  355  of  the  education law is amended by adding a new
subdivision 20 to read as follows:

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.

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