S06685 Summary:

BILL NOS06685
 
SAME ASSAME AS A02189-A
 
SPONSORZELDIN
 
COSPNSRGRISANTI, LARKIN, MARTINS, MAZIARZ, RANZENHOFER
 
MLTSPNSR
 
Amd S3803, Pub Health L; amd S29, Cor L
 
Provides additional benefits for veterans; provides for services and counseling related to post-traumatic stress disorder and brain injuries; requires reports to the legislature concerning the number of veterans who are incarcerated.
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S06685 Actions:

BILL NOS06685
 
02/27/2014REFERRED TO HEALTH
05/06/2014REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE
06/02/20141ST REPORT CAL.1083
06/03/20142ND REPORT CAL.
06/09/2014ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
06/18/2014SUBSTITUTED BY A2189A
 A02189 AMEND=A Lavine (MS)
 01/09/2013referred to veterans' affairs
 05/29/2013amend (t) and recommit to veterans' affairs
 05/29/2013print number 2189a
 06/11/2013reported referred to ways and means
 06/17/2013reported referred to rules
 06/18/2013reported
 06/18/2013rules report cal.406
 06/18/2013ordered to third reading rules cal.406
 06/18/2013passed assembly
 06/18/2013delivered to senate
 06/19/2013REFERRED TO RULES
 01/08/2014DIED IN SENATE
 01/08/2014RETURNED TO ASSEMBLY
 01/08/2014ordered to third reading cal.123
 01/22/2014passed assembly
 01/22/2014delivered to senate
 01/22/2014REFERRED TO HEALTH
 06/18/2014SUBSTITUTED FOR S6685
 06/18/20143RD READING CAL.1083
 06/18/2014PASSED SENATE
 06/18/2014RETURNED TO ASSEMBLY
 11/10/2014delivered to governor
 11/21/2014vetoed memo.485
 11/21/2014tabled
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S06685 Floor Votes:

There are no votes for this bill in this legislative session.
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S06685 Text:



 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                          6685
 
                    IN SENATE
 
                                    February 27, 2014
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by  Sens. ZELDIN, GRISANTI, MARTINS, MAZIARZ, RANZENHOFER --
          read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to  be  committed  to
          the Committee on Health
 
        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:
 
     1    Section 1.  Subdivision 1 of section 3803 of the public health law, as
     2  amended by chapter 743 of the laws  of  2006,  is  amended  to  read  as
     3  follows:
     4    1.  There  is hereby created within the department the veterans health
     5  care information program (referred to in this section as the "program"),
     6  which shall provide information on health issues associated  with  mili-
     7  tary  duty,  including  but  not  limited  to  Agent  Orange,  Gulf  War
     8  Syndromes, toxic materials or harmful physical agents such as,  depleted
     9  uranium, and hepatitis C, and specific mental and physical health issues
    10  including  post-traumatic  stress  disorder,  traumatic brain injury and

    11  other brain-related injuries, for veterans, their surviving spouses  and
    12  health care providers.
    13    §  2. Subdivision 1 of section 29 of the correction law, as amended by
    14  section 12 of subpart A of part C of chapter 62 of the laws of 2011,  is
    15  amended and a new subdivision 5 is added to read as follows:
    16    1.  The  department  shall  continue to collect, maintain, and analyze
    17  statistical and other information  and  data  with  respect  to  persons
    18  subject to the jurisdiction of the department, including but not limited
    19  to: (a) the number of such persons: placed in the custody of the depart-
    20  ment,  assigned  to  a  specific  department program, accorded community
    21  supervision and declared delinquent, recommitted to a state correctional
    22  institution upon revocation of community supervision, or discharged upon

    23  maximum expiration  of  sentence;  (b)  the  criminal  history  of  such
    24  persons;  (c)  the  social, educational, and vocational circumstances of
    25  any such persons; [and,] (d) the institutional and community supervision
    26  programs and the behavior of such persons; and, (e) the  military  back-
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD06299-03-4

        S. 6685                             2
 
     1  ground  and  circumstances,  if  such person served in the United States
     2  armed forces.  Provided, however, in the event any statistical  informa-
     3  tion on the ethnic background of the inmate population of a correctional

     4  facility  or facilities is collected by the department, such statistical
     5  information shall contain, but not be limited to, the  following  ethnic
     6  categories:  (i)  Caucasian;  (ii)  Asian;  (iii)  American Indian; (iv)
     7  Afro-American/Black; and (v) Spanish  speaking/Hispanic  which  category
     8  shall  include,  but  not  be  limited  to,  the following subcategories
     9  consisting of: (1) Puerto Ricans; (2) Cubans; (3)  Dominicans;  and  (4)
    10  other Hispanic nationalities.
    11    5.  The  commissioner shall report to the legislature on the number of
    12  inmates who are currently serving sentences in state correctional facil-
    13  ities and any local correctional  facilities  who  have  served  in  the
    14  United States armed forces. Such report shall include, but not be limit-
    15  ed  to  the following: a breakdown of the number of inmates by branch of

    16  service, time period of military service and the type of  discharge  the
    17  inmate  received upon separation from the military. Such report shall be
    18  done annually.
    19    § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    20  it shall have become a law; provided, that  any  rules  and  regulations
    21  necessary  for  the  timely  implementation of this act on its effective
    22  date shall be promulgated on or before such date.
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