Assembly Bill A3093

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Relates to certificates of honorable separation from or service in the armed forces of the United States

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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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2023-A3093 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S5416
Current Committee:
Assembly Veterans' Affairs
Law Section:
Veterans' Service Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §4, Veterans' Services L; amd §250, Mil L; amd §79-g, Civ Rts L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: A10196, S8792
2021-2022: A1782, S8567

2023-A3093 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to certificates of honorable separation from or service in the armed forces of the United States; provides that such certificates shall be forwarded to the appropriate local veterans' service agency within 60 days of receipt.

2023-A3093 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   3093
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 2, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  JEAN-PIERRE,  BARRETT,  BUTTENSCHON, MILLER,
   HAWLEY, DURSO, STERN, SEAWRIGHT, TAGUE, McDONOUGH, MORINELLO,  NORRIS,
   SANTABARBARA,  WALLACE  --  read once and referred to the Committee on
   Veterans' Affairs
 
 AN ACT to amend the veterans' services law, the  military  law  and  the
   civil  rights law, in relation to certificates of honorable separation
   from or service in the armed forces of the United States
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Section  4  of  the  veterans' services law is amended by
 adding a new subdivision 38 to read as follows:
   38. TO RECEIVE A CERTIFICATE OF RELEASE OR DISCHARGE FROM ACTIVE  DUTY
 WHICH  WAS  ISSUED  BY THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT AND DELIVERED TO THE
 DEPARTMENT, AND SHALL FORWARD SUCH  CERTIFICATE  WITHIN  SIXTY  DAYS  OF
 RECEIPT  TO  THE  APPROPRIATE LOCAL VETERANS' SERVICE AGENCY, BASED UPON
 THE MAILING ADDRESS AFTER SEPARATION NOTED  ON  SUCH  CERTIFICATE.  SUCH
 TRANSMISSION  MAY  BE MADE ELECTRONICALLY. INFORMATION CONTAINED IN SUCH
 CERTIFICATES SHALL BE PROTECTED  AS  PERSONAL  CONFIDENTIAL  INFORMATION
 UNDER  ARTICLE  SIX-A  OF  THE PUBLIC OFFICERS LAW AGAINST DISCLOSURE OF
 CONFIDENTIAL MATERIAL, AND USED ONLY FOR INFORMATION AND ASSISTANCE WITH
 REGARDS TO STATE BENEFITS AND ENTITLEMENTS UNDER FEDERAL AND STATE LAW.
   § 2. Section 250 of the military law, as amended by chapter 298 of the
 laws of 2005, is amended to read as follows:
   § 250. Recording certificates of honorable discharge. Any  certificate
 issued  after  April sixth, nineteen hundred seventeen, of the honorable
 separation from or service in the armed forces of the United  States  of
 any  veteran,  may  be  recorded in any one county, in the office of the
 county clerk, and when so recorded shall constitute notice to all public
 officials of the facts set forth therein. It shall be the  duty  of  the
 county clerk to record the certificate upon presentation thereof without
 the  payment  of any fee. For any purpose for which the original certif-
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD02904-01-3
              

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