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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4108--A
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 28, 2019
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Introduced by Sen. ORTT -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Veterans, Homeland Securi-
ty and Military Affairs -- recommitted to the Committee on Veterans,
Homeland Security and Military Affairs in accordance with Senate Rule
6, sec. 8 -- 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 25 to read as follows:
3 25. 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 and information on the admission process including,
11 but not limited to, eligibility requirements relating to military
12 service history, honorable discharge, service connected disability, and
13 skilled nursing needs. The division and the department of health shall
14 jointly ensure that the information posted on the electronic database
15 established pursuant to this subdivision is maintained and updated on a
16 real time basis as such information changes.
17 § 2. The public health law is amended by adding a new section 2636 to
18 read as follows:
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 § 2636. State veterans' home electronic database. The department shall
2 fully cooperate with the division of veterans' affairs to establish and
3 operate the electronic database provided for in subdivision twenty-five
4 of section three hundred fifty-three of the executive law, and provide
5 information relating to the state veterans' homes operated pursuant to
6 this article to such division on a real time basis.
7 § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
8 it shall have become a law. Provided, however that, effective immediate-
9 ly, any actions necessary to implement the provisions of this act on its
10 effective date are authorized and directed to be completed on or before
11 such date.
