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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         2189--A
 
                               2013-2014 Regular Sessions
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                       (Prefiled)
 
                                     January 9, 2013
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by  M.  of A. LAVINE, LUPARDO, RUSSELL, SCHIMEL, SIMANOWITZ,
          JAFFEE, SKARTADOS, BROOK-KRASNY, BARRETT,  SCARBOROUGH,  COOK,  CLARK,
          BARRON, MOYA, GIBSON -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. CRESPO, CROUCH,
          CYMBROWITZ,  DUPREY,  FAHY,  JOHNS,  KEARNS,  MALLIOTAKIS,  McDONOUGH,

          McKEVITT, MONTESANO, RAIA -- read once and referred to  the  Committee
          on  Veterans'  Affairs  -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
          reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
 
        AN ACT to amend 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.  Subdivision 1 of section 3803 of the public health law, as
     2  amended  by  chapter  743  of  the  laws  of 2006, is amended to read as
     3  follows:
     4    1. There is hereby created within the department the  veterans  health
     5  care information program (referred to in this section as the "program"),

     6  which  shall  provide information on health issues associated with mili-
     7  tary  duty,  including  but  not  limited  to  Agent  Orange,  Gulf  War
     8  Syndromes,  toxic materials or harmful physical agents such as, depleted
     9  uranium, and hepatitis C, and specific mental and physical health issues
    10  including post-traumatic stress disorder,  traumatic  brain  injury  and
    11  other  brain-related injuries, for veterans, their surviving spouses and
    12  health care providers.
    13    § 2. Subdivision 1 of section 29 of the correction law, as amended  by
    14  section  12 of subpart A of part C of chapter 62 of the laws of 2011, is
    15  amended and a new subdivision 5 is added to read as follows:
    16    1. The department shall continue to  collect,  maintain,  and  analyze
    17  statistical  and  other  information  and  data  with respect to persons

    18  subject to the jurisdiction of the department, including but not limited
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  to: (a) the number of such persons: placed in the custody of the depart-
     2  ment, assigned to a  specific  department  program,  accorded  community
     3  supervision and declared delinquent, recommitted to a state correctional
     4  institution upon revocation of community supervision, or discharged upon
     5  maximum  expiration  of  sentence;  (b)  the  criminal  history  of such
     6  persons; (c) the social, educational, and  vocational  circumstances  of
     7  any such persons; [and,] (d) the institutional and community supervision

     8  programs  and  the behavior of such persons; and, (e) the military back-
     9  ground and circumstances, if such person served  in  the  United  States
    10  armed  forces.  Provided, however, in the event any statistical informa-
    11  tion on the ethnic background of the inmate population of a correctional
    12  facility or facilities is collected by the department, such  statistical
    13  information  shall  contain, but not be limited to, the following ethnic
    14  categories: (i) Caucasian;  (ii)  Asian;  (iii)  American  Indian;  (iv)
    15  Afro-American/Black;  and  (v)  Spanish speaking/Hispanic which category
    16  shall include, but  not  be  limited  to,  the  following  subcategories
    17  consisting  of:  (1)  Puerto Ricans; (2) Cubans; (3) Dominicans; and (4)
    18  other Hispanic nationalities.
    19    5. The commissioner shall report to the legislature on the  number  of

    20  inmates who are currently serving sentences in state correctional facil-
    21  ities  and  any  local  correctional  facilities  who have served in the
    22  United States armed forces. Such report shall include, but not be limit-
    23  ed to the following: a breakdown of the number of inmates by  branch  of
    24  service,  time  period of military service and the type of discharge the
    25  inmate received upon separation from the military. Such report shall  be
    26  done annually.
    27    § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    28  it  shall  have  become  a law; provided, that any rules and regulations
    29  necessary for the timely implementation of this  act  on  its  effective
    30  date shall be promulgated on or before such date.