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.
NEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLY MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT OF LEGISLATION submitted in accordance with Assembly Rule III, Sec 1(f)
BILL NUMBER: A6503
SPONSOR: Dais TITLE OF BILL:
An act to amend the veterans' services law, in relation to directing the
department of veterans' services to establish and maintain, in consulta-
tion and collaboration with other state agencies, a searchable database
of resources available in the state for veterans, members of the
uniformed services, and their families
PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL:
To assist New York State veterans and their families to attain important
access to state funded programs and policies in one uniformed statewide
database.
SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS:
Section 1. Amend section 4 of the veterans' service law by adding a new
Subdivision 39. To establish and maintain, in consultation and collab-
oration with other state agencies including, but not limited to, the
office of mental health, the department of health, the office of general
services, the department of labor, the department of state, and the
department of financial services, establish and maintain a searchable
database of resources available in the state for veterans, members of
the uniformed services, and their families.
Such database shall include but not be limited: general information
about and contact information for resources available through federal,
state, and local government agencies and other organizations including,
but not limited to, those relating to veterans' benefits, healthcare,
housing, employment, veteran-owned businesses, survivor benefits,
substance abuse disorder treatment, physical disabilities, educational
and job benefits, real property tax exemptions, suicide prevention and
peer outreach and support.
Information about the department's mobile application, established under
subdivision twenty-one of this section.
Links to the departments small business portal, established under subdi-
vision twelve of this section, the department's veterans' employment
portal, established under subdivision thirteen of this section, the
department's mental health, substance abuse, and physical disabilities
portals, establish under subdivision twenty-seven of this section, and
the department's military sexual trauma portal, established under subdi-
vision thirty-two of this section.
The database created shall be made available on the departments website
STATE OF NEW YORK
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6503
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
March 5, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. DAIS -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Veterans' Affairs
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 40 to read as follows:
3 40. (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,
16 health and mental health referrals, real property tax exemptions,
17 suicide prevention, and peer outreach and support;
18 (2) information about the department's mobile application, established
19 under subdivision twenty-one of this section; and
20 (3) links to the department's small business portal, established under
21 subdivision twelve of this section, the department's veterans' employ-
22 ment portal, established under subdivision thirteen of this section, the
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 department's mental health, substance abuse, and physical disabilities
2 portals, established under subdivision twenty-seven of this section, and
3 the department's military sexual trauma portal, established under subdi-
4 vision thirty-two of this section.
5 (b) The database created pursuant to this subdivision shall be made
6 available on the department's website and shall be reviewed and updated
7 at least annually.
8 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
9 it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amend-
10 ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen-
11 tation of this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and
12 completed on or before such effective date.
