Requires a report on the administration, function and outcomes of all superior courts for veterans treatment to be delivered to the legislature and the governor on or before March 15th every year beginning in 2028.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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10263
IN SENATE
May 11, 2026
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Introduced by Sen. MAYER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Judiciary
AN ACT to amend the judiciary law, in relation to requiring a report on
the administration, function and outcomes of all superior courts for
veterans treatment
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 212 of the judiciary law is
2 amended by adding a new paragraph (gg) to read as follows:
3 (gg) Submit, on or before March fifteenth, two thousand twenty-eight,
4 and annually thereafter on or before March fifteenth, to the legislature
5 and the governor a report on the administration, function and outcomes
6 of all superior courts for veterans treatment, operating in the state as
7 part of the treatment court program during the preceding year. Such
8 report shall include, but not be limited to, an accounting of the number
9 and demographics of veterans served, any barriers to participation, as
10 well as outcomes of cases, expenditures of state, local, federal, and
11 other funds used in support of such veterans treatment court programs.
12 Such report shall also include available information on staffing levels,
13 levels of participation of community service providers, veterans service
14 agencies and providers, including non-profit organizations, who provided
15 treatment or other services to participants.
16 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD15785-01-6
