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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         2102--A
 
                               2011-2012 Regular Sessions
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                    January 13, 2011
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced by M. of A. LAVINE, CASTELLI -- read once and referred to the
          Committee  on  Veterans'  Affairs  --  recommitted to the Committee on
          Veterans' Affairs in accordance  with  Assembly  Rule  3,  sec.  2  --
          committee  discharged,  bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and
          recommitted to said committee
 

        AN ACT to amend the executive law and 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. Section 353 of the executive law is amended by adding a new
     2  subdivision 21 to read as follows:
     3    21.  To develop, in consultation with the department of mental health,
     4  a program for the identification, diagnosis, counseling and treatment of
     5  veterans who suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder, traumatic brain
     6  injury and other brain-related injuries.   Such  program  shall  include
     7  procedures for identifying veterans who may need assistance and informa-

     8  tion  and  outreach  to  make  veterans  aware of available programs and
     9  services.
    10    § 2. Subdivision 1 of section  3803  of  the  public  health  law,  as
    11  amended  by  chapter  743  of  the  laws  of 2006, is amended to read as
    12  follows:
    13    1. There is hereby created within the department the  veterans  health
    14  care information program (referred to in this section as the "program"),
    15  which  shall  provide information on health issues associated with mili-
    16  tary  duty,  including  but  not  limited  to  Agent  Orange,  Gulf  War
    17  Syndromes,  toxic materials or harmful physical agents such as, depleted
    18  uranium, and hepatitis C, and specific mental and physical health issues
    19  including post-traumatic stress disorder,  traumatic  brain  injury  and

    20  other  brain-related injuries, for veterans, their surviving spouses and
    21  health care providers.
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1    § 3. Subdivision 1 of section 29 of the correction law, as amended  by
     2  section  12 of subpart A of part C of chapter 62 of the laws of 2011, is
     3  amended and a new subdivision 5 is added to read as follows:
     4    1.  The  department  shall  continue to collect, maintain, and analyze
     5  statistical and other information  and  data  with  respect  to  persons
     6  subject to the jurisdiction of the department, including but not limited

     7  to: (a) the number of such persons: placed in the custody of the depart-
     8  ment,  assigned  to  a  specific  department program, accorded community
     9  supervision and declared delinquent, recommitted to a state correctional
    10  institution upon revocation of community supervision, or discharged upon
    11  maximum expiration  of  sentence;  (b)  the  criminal  history  of  such
    12  persons;  (c)  the  social, educational, and vocational circumstances of
    13  any such persons; [and,] (d) the institutional and community supervision
    14  programs and the behavior of such persons; and, (e) the  military  back-
    15  ground  and  circumstances,  if  such person served in the United States
    16  armed forces.  Provided, however, in the event any statistical  informa-
    17  tion on the ethnic background of the inmate population of a correctional

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

    30  service, time period of military service and the type of  discharge  the
    31  inmate  received upon separation from the military. Such report shall be
    32  done annually.
    33    § 4. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    34  it shall have become a law; provided, that  any  rules  and  regulations
    35  necessary  for  the  timely  implementation of this act on its effective
    36  date shall be promulgated on or before such date.