STATE OF NEW YORK
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2640
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 22, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. FERNANDEZ -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Investigations and Govern-
ment Operations
AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to including veterans in
the definition of military status for purposes of unlawful discrimi-
nation
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 28 of section 292 of the executive law, as
2 added by chapter 106 of the laws of 2003, is amended to read as follows:
3 28. The term "military status" when used in this article means a
4 person's participation in the military service of the United States or
5 the military service of the state, including but not limited to, the
6 armed forces of the United States, the army national guard, the air
7 national guard, the New York naval militia, the New York guard, service
8 as a commissioned officer in the public health service, commissioned
9 officer of the national oceanic and atmospheric administration or
10 commissioned officer of the environmental sciences services adminis-
11 tration, a cadet at a United States armed forces services academy, and
12 such additional forces as may be created by the federal or state govern-
13 ment as authorized by law. "Military status" shall also include a
14 person's participation in the military service of the United States or
15 the military service of the state if such person has been released from
16 such service.
17 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD00532-03-5
