What's happening
This bill requires the creation of a public, real-time online database showing available openings and waitlists at New York state veterans' homes.
Why it matters
Increases transparency and empowers veterans/families. By making real-time data on bed availability and waitlists public, veterans and their families will have immediate, clear information to help them plan admissions, reducing uncertainty and confusion during stressful times.
Promotes accountability and efficiency in state veterans' homes. With bed counts and waitlists updated in real time and visible to the public, the state must maintain accurate records and efficient admissions processes, potentially leading to improved management and responsiveness.
Encourages inter-agency cooperation and technological upgrades. The bill requires the Department of Health and Division of Veterans' Affairs to work together and modernize data-sharing systems, which could lead to broader improvements in how state-run care facilities manage and share critical information.
Could spotlight systemic issues and unmet needs. Publicly accessible data on waitlists and capacity may help advocates, policymakers, and researchers identify shortages or bottlenecks in veterans' long-term care, supporting calls for additional resources or reforms if chronic wait times are revealed.
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Track Veterans Home Openings
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- Referred to veterans' affairs
- Print number 630a
- Amend (t) and recommit to veterans' affairs
- Referred to veterans' affairs
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Track Veterans' Home Openings
In Assembly Committee · Veterans' Affairs · Sponsor Terrence P. Murphy
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STATE OF NEW YORK
630--A
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 9, 2017
Introduced by M. of A. M. G. MILLER -- 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 executive law and the public health 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 Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Section 353 of the executive law is amended by adding a new subdivision 24 to read as follows:
24. To, in consultation and cooperation with the department of health, establish and operate an internet website electronic database, accessible to the public, which provides the number of available openings for eligible individuals at each state veterans' home operated pursuant to article twenty-six-A of the public health law. In addition, such electronic database shall, for each such veterans' home, provide the number of eligible individuals who are on the waiting list for admission to the state veterans' home. The division and the department of health shall jointly ensure that the information posted on the electronic database established pursuant to this subdivision is maintained and updated on a real time basis as such information changes.
§ 2. The public health law is amended by adding a new section 2636 to read as follows:
§ 2636. State veterans' home electronic database. The department shall fully cooperate with the division of veterans' affairs to establish and operate the electronic database provided for in subdivision twenty-four of section three hundred fifty-three of the executive law, and provide information relating to the state veterans' homes operated pursuant to this article to such division on a real time basis.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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§ 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after it shall have become a law. Provided, however that, effective immediately, any actions necessary to implement the provisions of this act on its effective date are authorized and directed to be completed on or before such date.
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