Senate Bill S7379

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Grants veteran status to certain members of the armed forces who participated in World Trade Center rescue, recovery, or cleanup operations

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Current Bill Status - In Assembly Committee


  • 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-S7379 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Veterans' Affairs
Law Section:
General Construction Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §13-a, Gen Con L

2023-S7379 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Ensures that certain members of the New York Air National Guard, New York Army National Guard, New York Naval Militia, and New York Guard who participated in World Trade Center rescue, recovery, or cleanup operations are honored for their service and afforded veteran status under New York state law.

2023-S7379 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2023-S7379 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7379
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               May 22, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  WEBB  --  (at  request of the Division of Veterans
   Services) -- read twice and ordered printed, and when  printed  to  be
   committed to the Committee on Veterans, Homeland Security and Military
   Affairs
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend the general construction law, in relation to granting
   veteran status to certain members of the armed forces  of  the  United
   States  who  participated  in  World Trade Center rescue, recovery, or
   cleanup
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section l. Section 13-a of the general construction law, as amended by
 section  60  of part PP of chapter 56 of the laws of 2022, is amended to
 read as follows:
   § 13-a. Armed forces of the United States. 1.  "Armed  forces  of  the
 United  States"  means the army, navy, marine corps, air force and coast
 guard including all components thereof, and the national guard  when  in
 the  service  of  the United States pursuant to call as provided by law.
 Pursuant to this definition no person shall be considered  a  member  or
 veteran  of  the  armed  forces  of  the United States unless his or her
 service therein is or was on a full-time active duty basis,  other  than
 active  duty  for training or he or she was employed by the War Shipping
 Administration or Office of Defense Transportation or their agents as  a
 merchant  seaman  documented by the United States Coast Guard or Depart-
 ment of Commerce, or as a civil servant employed by  the  United  States
 Army  Transport  Service  (later  redesignated as the United States Army
 Transportation  Corps,  Water  Division)  or  the  Naval  Transportation
 Service; and who served satisfactorily as a crew member during the peri-
 od  of  armed conflict, December seventh, nineteen hundred forty-one, to
 August fifteenth, nineteen hundred forty-five, aboard  merchant  vessels
 in oceangoing, i.e., foreign, intercoastal, or coastwise service as such
 terms  are defined under federal law (46 USCA 10301 & 10501) and further
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD06165-01-3
              

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