Directs the division of veterans' affairs to establish and operate an electronic database of the number of openings in each of the 4 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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307--A
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE(Prefiled)
January 4, 2017
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Introduced by Sens. MURPHY, CROCI -- read twice and ordered printed, and
when printed to be committed to the Committee on Veterans, Homeland
Security and Military Affairs -- 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 directing the division of veterans' affairs to establish and oper-
ate 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 24 to read as follows:
3 24. To, in consultation and cooperation with the department of health,
4 establish and operate an internet website electronic database, accessi-
5 ble to the public, which provides the number of available openings for
6 eligible individuals at each state veterans' home operated pursuant to
7 article twenty-six-A of the public health law. In addition, such elec-
8 tronic database shall, for each such veterans' home, provide the number
9 of eligible individuals who are on the waiting list for admission to the
10 state veterans' home. The division and the department of health shall
11 jointly ensure that the information posted on the electronic database
12 established pursuant to this subdivision is maintained and updated on a
13 real time basis as such information changes.
14 § 2. The public health law is amended by adding a new section 2636 to
15 read as follows:
16 § 2636. State veterans' home electronic database. The department shall
17 fully cooperate with the division of veterans' affairs to establish and
18 operate the electronic database provided for in subdivision twenty-four
19 of section three hundred fifty-three of the executive law, and provide
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 information relating to the state veterans' homes operated pursuant to
2 this article to such division on a real time basis.
3 § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
4 it shall have become a law. Provided, however that, effective immediate-
5 ly, any actions necessary to implement the provisions of this act on its
6 effective date are authorized and directed to be completed on or before
7 such date.
