Amd §353, Exec L; add §2636, Pub Health L; amd §355, Ed L
 
Directs the division of veterans' affairs to establish and operate an electronic database of the number of openings in each of the 5 state veterans' homes and the number of persons on the waiting list for each such veterans' home.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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10692
IN ASSEMBLY
June 13, 2016
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Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Miller) --
read once and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs
AN ACT to amend the executive law, the public health law and the educa-
tion law, in relation to directing the division of veterans' affairs
to establish and operate a publicly accessible electronic database of
the availability of openings for admission to state veterans' homes
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 23 to read as follows:
3 23. To, in consultation and cooperation with the department of health
4 and the state university of New York, establish and operate an internet
5 website electronic database, accessible to the public, which provides
6 the number of available openings for eligible individuals at each state
7 veterans' home operated pursuant to article twenty-six-A of the public
8 health law and at the Long Island state veterans' home at the state
9 university of New York at Stony Brook. In addition, such electronic
10 database shall, for each such veterans' home, provide the number of
11 eligible individuals who are on the waiting list for admission to the
12 state veterans' home. The division, the department of health and the
13 state university of New York shall jointly ensure that the information
14 posted on the electronic database established pursuant to this subdivi-
15 sion is maintained and updated on a real time basis as such information
16 changes.
17 § 2. The public health law is amended by adding a new section 2636 to
18 read as follows:
19 § 2636. State veterans' home electronic database. The department shall
20 fully cooperate with the division of veterans' affairs to establish and
21 operate the electronic database provided for in subdivision twenty-three
22 of section three hundred fifty-three of the executive law, and provide
23 information relating to the state veterans' homes operated pursuant to
24 this article to such division on a real time basis.
25 § 3. Section 355 of the education law is amended by adding a new
26 subdivision 20 to read as follows:
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 20. State veterans' home electronic database. The state university
2 shall fully cooperate with the division of veterans' affairs to estab-
3 lish and operate the electronic database provided for in subdivision
4 twenty-three of section three hundred fifty-three of the executive law,
5 and provide information relating to the Long Island state veterans' home
6 at the state university of New York at Stony Brook to such division on a
7 real time basis.
8 § 4. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
9 it shall have become a law. Provided, however that, effective immediate-
10 ly, any actions necessary to implement the provisions of this act on its
11 effective date are authorized and directed to be completed on or before
12 such date.