NY State Senate Bill 2017-S48A

Senate Bill S48A

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Requires the veterans health care information program to provide information concerning health issues to veteran's children; requires the department of corrections and community supervision to maintain records

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- In Committee Senate
- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
Delivered to Governor
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	Assembly Actions - Lowercase Senate Actions - UPPERCASE
Jun 13, 2018	referred to veterans' affairs delivered to assembly passed senate ordered to third reading cal.1741 committee discharged and committed to rules
Jun 08, 2018	print number 48a
Jun 08, 2018	amend (t) and recommit to veterans, homeland security and military affairs
Jan 03, 2018	referred to veterans, homeland security and military affairs
Jan 04, 2017	referred to veterans, homeland security and military affairs

Votes

- Jun 13, 2018 - Floor Vote
  S48A
  
  60
  
  Aye
  
  0
  
  Nay
  
  0
  
  Absent
  
  3
  
  Excused
  
  0
  
  Abstained
  - - Floor Vote: Jun 13, 2018
      
      aye (60)
      
      Addabbo Jr.
      
      Akshar
      
      Alcantara
      
      Avella
      
      Bailey
      
      Benjamin
      
      Bonacic
      
      Boyle
      
      Breslin
      
      Brooks
      
      Carlucci
      
      Comrie
      
      DeFrancisco
      
      Dilan
      
      Felder
      
      Flanagan
      
      Funke
      
      Gallivan
      
      Gianaris
      
      Golden
      
      Griffo
      
      Hamilton
      
      Hannon
      
      Helming
      
      Hoylman-Sigal
      
      Jacobs
      
      Kaminsky
      
      Kavanagh
      
      Kennedy
      
      Klein
      
      Krueger
      
      LaValle
      
      Lanza
      
      Larkin
      
      Little
      
      Marcellino
      
      Marchione
      
      Mayer
      
      Montgomery
      
      Murphy
      
      O'Mara
      
      Ortt
      
      Parker
      
      Peralta
      
      Persaud
      
      Phillips
      
      Ranzenhofer
      
      Ritchie
      
      Rivera
      
      Robach
      
      Sanders Jr.
      
      Savino
      
      Serino
      
      Serrano
      
      Seward
      
      Stavisky
      
      Stewart-Cousins
      
      Tedisco
      
      Valesky
      
      Young
      
      excused (3)
      
      Amedore
      
      Croci
      
      Sepúlveda
  Jun 13, 2018 - Rules Committee Vote
  S48A
  
  25
  
  Aye
  
  0
  
  Nay
  
  0
  
  Aye with Reservations
  
  0
  
  Absent
  
  0
  
  Excused
  
  0
  
  Abstained
  - - Rules Committee Vote: Jun 13, 2018
      
      aye (25)
      
      Bonacic
      
      Breslin
      
      DeFrancisco
      
      Dilan
      
      Flanagan
      
      Gianaris
      
      Griffo
      
      Hannon
      
      Kennedy
      
      Klein
      
      Krueger
      
      LaValle
      
      Lanza
      
      Larkin
      
      Little
      
      Marcellino
      
      Montgomery
      
      Parker
      
      Ranzenhofer
      
      Rivera
      
      Robach
      
      Savino
      
      Seward
      
      Stewart-Cousins
      
      Valesky

Bill Amendments

Original

A (Active)

2017-S48 - Details

Current Committee:: Assembly Veterans
Law Section:: Public Health Law
Laws Affected:: Amd §3803, Pub Health L; amd §29, Cor L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:: 2015-2016: S8057
2019-2020: S2377

2017-S48 - Summary

2017-S48 - Sponsor Memo

2017-S48 - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    48
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 4, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by Sens. HOYLMAN, PERKINS -- read twice and ordered printed,
   and when printed to be committed to the Committee on  Veterans,  Home-
   land Security and Military Affairs
 
 AN  ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to providing certain
   benefits to veterans; and to amend the correction law, in relation  to
   requiring certain reports relating to veterans
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1.  Subdivision 1 of section 3803 of the public health law, as
 amended by chapter 743 of the laws  of  2006,  is  amended  to  read  as
 follows:
   1.  There  is hereby created within the department the veterans health
 care information program (referred to in this section as the "program"),
 which shall provide information on health issues associated  with  mili-
 tary duty, including but not limited to Agent Orange, SPINA BIFIDA, Gulf
 War  Syndromes,  toxic  materials  or  harmful  physical agents such as,
 depleted uranium, and hepatitis C,  AND  SPECIFIC  MENTAL  AND  PHYSICAL
 HEALTH  ISSUES INCLUDING POST-TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER, TRAUMATIC BRAIN
 INJURY AND OTHER BRAIN-RELATED INJURIES, for veterans,  their  surviving
 spouses, CHILDREN OF VETERANS and health care providers.
   §  2. Subdivision 1 of section 29 of the correction law, as amended by
 section 12 of subpart A of part C of chapter 62 of the laws of 2011,  is
 amended to read as follows:
   1.  The  department  shall  continue to collect, maintain, and analyze
 statistical and other information  and  data  with  respect  to  persons
 subject to the jurisdiction of the department, including but not limited
 to: (a) the number of such persons: placed in the custody of the depart-
 ment,  assigned  to  a  specific  department program, accorded community
 supervision and declared delinquent, recommitted to a state correctional
 institution upon revocation of community supervision, or discharged upon
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets

                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD05715-01-7

 S. 48                               2
 
 maximum expiration  of  sentence;  (b)  the  criminal  history  of  such
 persons;  (c)  the  social, educational, and vocational circumstances of
 any such persons; [and,] (d) the institutional and community supervision
 programs  and  the behavior of such persons; AND, (E) THE MILITARY BACK-
 GROUND AND CIRCUMSTANCES, IF SUCH PERSON SERVED  IN  THE  UNITED  STATES
 ARMED  FORCES.  Provided, however, in the event any statistical informa-
 tion on the ethnic background of the inmate population of a correctional
 facility or facilities is collected by the department, such  statistical
 information  shall  contain, but not be limited to, the following ethnic
 categories: (i) Caucasian;  (ii)  Asian;  (iii)  American  Indian;  (iv)
 Afro-American/Black;  and  (v)  Spanish speaking/Hispanic which category
 shall include, but  not  be  limited  to,  the  following  subcategories
 consisting  of:  (1)  Puerto Ricans; (2) Cubans; (3) Dominicans; and (4)
 other Hispanic nationalities.
   § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
 it shall have become a law; provided, that  any  rules  and  regulations
 necessary  for  the  timely  implementation of this act on its effective
 date shall be promulgated on or before such date.

2017-S48A (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:: Assembly Veterans
Law Section:: Public Health Law
Laws Affected:: Amd §3803, Pub Health L; amd §29, Cor L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:: 2015-2016: S8057
2019-2020: S2377

2017-S48A (ACTIVE) - Summary

2017-S48A (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                
 
BILL NUMBER: S48A

SPONSOR: HOYLMAN
 
TITLE OF BILL:  An act to amend the public health law, in relation to
requiring the veterans health care information program to provide infor-
mation concerning health issues to veteran's children; and to amend the
correction law, in relation to requiring the department of corrections
and community supervision to maintain records regarding the military
background of certain individuals under its jurisdiction

 
PURPOSE:

To collect and provide information on various important aspects of the
lives of this State's veterans.

 
SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS:

Section 1 amends the Veterans Health Care Information Program in the New
York State Department of Health to provide information to the children
of veterans.

Section 2 amends current law to include among the current data required
under law, the military background and circumstances, if such person
served in the United States armed forces.

 
JUSTIFICATION:

Current deployments involve long, dangerous and repeated tours of duty,
with our citizen soldiers and their families performing above and beyond
the call of duty. This bill will serve to assist veterans and their
families by helping to determine the numbers in need and by providing
information on health programs to the children of veterans.

 
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

S.8057 of 2016 (Hoylman): Died in Rules
A.2357-A of 2015-2016 (Lavine): Passed Assembly

 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:

Minimal

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after it
shall have become a law; provided, that any rules and regulations neces-
sary for the timely implementation of this act on its effective date
shall be promulgated on or before such date.

2017-S48A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   48--A
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 4, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. HOYLMAN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Veterans, Homeland Securi-
   ty and Military Affairs -- recommitted to the Committee  on  Veterans,
   Homeland  Security and Military Affairs in accordance with Senate Rule
   6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted  as
   amended and recommitted to said committee
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the  public health law, in relation to requiring the
   veterans  health  care  information  program  to  provide  information
   concerning  health  issues  to  veteran's  children;  and to amend the
   correction law, in relation to requiring the department of corrections
   and community supervision to maintain records regarding  the  military
   background of certain individuals under its jurisdiction
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1.  Subdivision 1 of section 3803 of the public health law, as
 amended by chapter 743 of the laws  of  2006,  is  amended  to  read  as
 follows:
   1.  There  is hereby created within the department the veterans health
 care information program (referred to in this section as the "program"),
 which shall provide information on health issues associated  with  mili-
 tary  duty,  including  but  not  limited  to  Agent  Orange,  Gulf  War
 Syndromes, toxic materials or harmful physical agents such as,  depleted
 uranium,  and  hepatitis C, for veterans, their surviving spouses, CHIL-
 DREN OF VETERANS and health care providers.
   § 2. Subdivision 1 of section 29 of the correction law, as amended  by
 section  12 of subpart A of part C of chapter 62 of the laws of 2011, is
 amended to read as follows:
   1. The department shall continue to  collect,  maintain,  and  analyze
 statistical  and  other  information  and  data  with respect to persons
 subject to the jurisdiction of the department, including but not limited
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets

                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD05715-02-8

 S. 48--A                            2
 
 to: (a) the number of such persons: placed in the custody of the depart-
 ment, assigned to a  specific  department  program,  accorded  community
 supervision and declared delinquent, recommitted to a state correctional
 institution upon revocation of community supervision, or discharged upon
 maximum  expiration  of  sentence;  (b)  the  criminal  history  of such
 persons; (c) the social, educational, and  vocational  circumstances  of
 any such persons; [and,] (d) the institutional and community supervision
 programs  and  the behavior of such persons; AND, (E) THE MILITARY BACK-
 GROUND AND CIRCUMSTANCES, IF SUCH PERSON SERVED  IN  THE  UNITED  STATES
 ARMED  FORCES.  Provided, however, in the event any statistical informa-
 tion on the ethnic background of the inmate population of a correctional
 facility or facilities is collected by the department, such  statistical
 information  shall  contain, but not be limited to, the following ethnic
 categories: (i) Caucasian;  (ii)  Asian;  (iii)  American  Indian;  (iv)
 Afro-American/Black;  and  (v)  Spanish speaking/Hispanic which category
 shall include, but  not  be  limited  to,  the  following  subcategories
 consisting  of:  (1)  Puerto Ricans; (2) Cubans; (3) Dominicans; and (4)
 other Hispanic nationalities.
   § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
 it shall have become a law; provided, that  any  rules  and  regulations
 necessary  for  the  timely  implementation of this act on its effective
 date shall be promulgated on or before such date.

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