What's happening
This bill expands veteran health care information to include more conditions and requires correctional facilities to report veterans' military backgrounds.
Why it matters
Expanding the veterans health care information program to include additional conditions like spina bifida, traumatic brain injury, and other brain-related injuries. means veterans and their families will receive more comprehensive information about a wider range of possible service-related health issues, potentially improving early detection and care.
Including children of veterans as recipients of health care information. recognizes that some conditions (such as those caused by Agent Orange) can have intergenerational effects, and that informed families are better equipped to seek appropriate medical care and support.
Requiring correctional facilities to collect and report the military backgrounds of incarcerated individuals. could lead to more informed policy decisions and targeted support programs for justice-involved veterans, addressing unique challenges they face due to their service history.
By mandating the collection of military service data, the state can better understand the intersection between veteran status and incarceration. , which could drive future investments in mental health, substance abuse, and reentry programs tailored to veterans’ needs.
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More Benefits for Veterans
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History
- Referred to veterans, homeland security and military affairs
- Delivered to senate
- Passed assembly
- Ordered to third reading cal.217
- Returned to assembly
- Died in senate
- Referred to rules
- Delivered to senate
- Passed assembly
- Advanced to third reading cal.500
- Reported
- Reported referred to ways and means
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- Referred to veterans' affairs
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STATE OF NEW YORK
2739
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 23, 2017
Introduced by M. of A. LAVINE, LUPARDO, JENNE, SIMANOWITZ, JAFFEE, SKAR- TADOS, BARRETT, COOK, MOYA, OTIS, PERRY, HUNTER, COLTON -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. CRESPO, CROUCH, CYMBROWITZ, FAHY, KEARNS, MALLIO- TAKIS, McDONOUGH, McKEVITT, MONTESANO, RAIA -- read once and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs
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 Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 3803 of the public health law, as amended by chapter 743 of the laws of 2006, is amended to read as follows:
1. There is hereby created within the department the veterans health care information program (referred to in this section as the "program"), which shall provide information on health issues associated with military duty, including but not limited to Agent Orange, spina bifida, Gulf War Syndromes, toxic materials or harmful physical agents such as, depleted uranium, and hepatitis C, and specific mental and physical health issues including post-traumatic stress disorder, traumatic brain injury and other brain-related injuries, for veterans, their surviving spouses, children of veterans and health care providers.
§ 2. Subdivision 1 of section 29 of the correction law, as amended by section 12 of subpart A of part C of chapter 62 of the laws of 2011, is amended to read as follows:
1. The department shall continue to collect, maintain, and analyze statistical and other information and data with respect to persons subject to the jurisdiction of the department, including but not limited to: (a) the number of such persons: placed in the custody of the department, assigned to a specific department program, accorded community supervision and declared delinquent, recommitted to a state correctional
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institution upon revocation of community supervision, or discharged upon maximum expiration of sentence; (b) the criminal history of such persons; (c) the social, educational, and vocational circumstances of any such persons; [and,] (d) the institutional and community supervision programs and the behavior of such persons; and, (e) the military background and circumstances, if such person served in the United States armed forces. Provided, however, in the event any statistical information on the ethnic background of the inmate population of a correctional facility or facilities is collected by the department, such statistical information shall contain, but not be limited to, the following ethnic categories: (i) Caucasian; (ii) Asian; (iii) American Indian; (iv) Afro-American/Black; and (v) Spanish speaking/Hispanic which category shall include, but not be limited to, the following subcategories consisting of: (1) Puerto Ricans; (2) Cubans; (3) Dominicans; and (4) other Hispanic nationalities.
§ 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after it shall have become a law; provided, that any rules and regulations necessary for the timely implementation of this act on its effective date shall be promulgated on or before such date.
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