S05124 Summary:
| BILL NO | S05124 |
| SAME AS | No Same As |
| SPONSOR | COMRIE |
| COSPNSR | |
| MLTSPNSR | |
| Amd §4, Veterans' Services L | |
| Requires the department of veterans' services to provide legal and/or technical support to veterans who want to change their discharged status to honorable because such person was dishonorably or administratively discharged from the armed services due to sexual orientation. | |
S05124 Text:
Go to topSTATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5124 2025-2026 Regular Sessions IN SENATE February 19, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sen. COMRIE -- 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 providing certain support for veterans to help alter their discharged status 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. To provide legal and/or technical support for veterans who want to 4 change their discharged status to honorable because such person was 5 dishonorably or administratively discharged from the armed services due 6 to sexual orientation. 7 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD06026-01-5