Requires all forms issued to the public by the state include an optional question regarding veteran status and whether the person completing the form would consent to the agency sharing their contact information with regards to resources available to veterans.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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2290
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 16, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. BAILEY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Veterans, Homeland Securi-
ty and Military Affairs
AN ACT to amend the veterans' services law, in relation to requiring all
forms issued to the public by the state include an optional question
regarding veteran status
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The veterans' services law is amended by adding a new
2 section 29-c to read as follows:
3 § 29-c. Veteran status question on forms. Any form created by any
4 department, division, board, bureau, commission, office, agency, author-
5 ity or public corporation of the state which is available to the public
6 for submission to such department, division, board, bureau, commission,
7 office, agency, authority or public corporation of the state shall
8 include:
9 1. a question as to if the person completing the form is a veteran or
10 resides with a veteran.
11 2. a question as to whether the person completing the form would
12 consent to the agency sharing their contact information with the depart-
13 ment regarding resources available to veterans.
14 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed-
15 ing the date upon which it shall have become a law. Effective immediate-
16 ly, the addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation
17 necessary for the implementation of this act on its effective date are
18 authorized to be made and completed on or before such date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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