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New York Senate Veterans, Homeland Security and Military Affairs Committee
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Bill | Bill Name | Progress | Referral Date |
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A00291 | Includes the Space Force as being members of the armed forces or veterans eligible for certain credits and benefits that are available to other active and veteran members of the armed forces. | Crossed Over | 05/21/2025 |
A00688 | Empowers the office of fire prevention and control to, in coordination with the commissioner of the office for people with developmental disabilities and the chief disability officer, provide minimum basic training related to handling emergency situations involving individuals with any physical and/or developmental disability to all firefighters. | Crossed Over | 05/12/2025 |
A04649 | Relates to certificates of honorable separation from or service in the armed forces of the United States; provides that such certificates shall be forwarded to the appropriate local veterans' service agency within 60 days of receipt. | Crossed Over | 05/05/2025 |
A04751 | Relates to the employment of veterans with disabilities program. | Crossed Over | 03/04/2025 |
A05155 | Relates to veterans' health care; creates a veteran health care review to ensure veterans and their families have access to health and mental health treatment, including for post-traumatic stress disorder, depression, anxiety, military sexual trauma, reproductive and mental health conditions, and suicide prevention. | Crossed Over | 05/29/2025 |
A06264 | Expands the definition of veteran to include members of the commissioned corps of the NOAA and the commissioned corps of the public health service; expands access to certain benefits to those who served in the commissioned corps of the NOAA and the commissioned corps of the public health service. | Crossed Over | 04/02/2025 |
A06538 | Changes references to the "division of veterans' services" to the "department of veterans' services" to conform with existing law. | Crossed Over | 04/08/2025 |
A06559 | Establishes a veterans' bill of rights; provides sample language for such bill of rights; requires the department of veterans' services to establish and distribute a veterans' bill of rights and to make such bill of rights available on the department's website. | Crossed Over | 05/21/2025 |
A07627 | Authorizes the Department of Veterans' Services to consult and collaborate with relevant offices in the federal department of veterans affairs, the department of health, the state office for the aging and other HCBS experts to develop educational materials for veterans and their families about the accessibility to home and community-based services. | Crossed Over | 05/21/2025 |
A08087 | Authorizes the presentation of a New York State Cold War Commemorative Medal for active duty during the period of September 2, 1945 through December 26, 1991. | Crossed Over | 05/05/2025 |
A08089 | Establishes a New York state veterans' and service member law book of a compilation of all state statutes governing the rights, privileges, benefits and services afforded to veterans, service members and their families. | Crossed Over | 05/05/2025 |
S00058 | Establishes the crime of making a terroristic threat against a police officer; makes such crime a class C felony. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
S00066 | Authorizes the carrying of service-issued firearms by military personnel at recruiting centers while on duty. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
S00102 | Makes a proclamation extending a local state of emergency issued by the chief executive subject to the approval of the local governing body of the applicable county, city, town or village; provides that all orders issued by a local board of health shall be effective for a period of five days; requires approval by the applicable local governing body for each extension thereof. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
S00129 | Relates to exemptions available to veterans; requires school districts to provide the veterans alternative exemption; establishes that costs associated with such exemption shall be borne by the state. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
S00193 | Creates a cyber security enhancement fund to be used for the purpose of upgrading cyber security in local governments, including but not limited to, villages, towns and cities with a population of one million or less; restricts the use of taxpayer moneys in paying ransoms in response to ransomware attacks. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
S00211 | Provides that on request of the sheriff, county legislature, county board of supervisors, mayor of any city or village, or supervisor of a town, the governor may order into active service of the state, all or any part of the organized militia, in accordance with the Lake Ontario-St. Lawrence River flood prevention, response and recovery program; establishes such program; relates to the financing of the Lake Ontario-St. Lawrence River flood prevention, response and recovery program. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
S00212 | Establishes the veterans' memorials preservation act. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
S00232 | Adds elderly persons to disaster preparedness registries; creates a state emergency assistance database; provides that the disaster preparedness commission shall establish the state emergency assistance database; provides that all records relating to SEAD shall be confidential and the commission shall not be liable for any claim based upon a good faith exercise or performance of duty. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
S00243 | Includes the Space Force as being members of the armed forces or veterans eligible for certain credits and benefits that are available to other active and veteran members of the armed forces. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
S00274 | Requires the department of veterans' services to provide information on the department's website on volunteer opportunities available to veterans and to post relevant application forms that a qualified veteran can use to apply for volunteer opportunities. | Crossed Over | 01/08/2025 |
S00609 | Relates to allowing municipalities to accept retroactive applications for real property tax exemptions from certain veterans. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
S00680 | Provides that any system for warning populations who are or may be endangered and for rapid and effective communication for any New York emergency alert notification shall occur within thirty minutes, or as soon as practicable thereafter. | Crossed Over | 01/08/2025 |
S00696 | Authorizes a real property tax exemption for certain eligible reservists upon adoption of a local law, ordinance or resolution providing therefor; requires property of such eligible reservists to be the primary residence; requires such reservist must have retained active duty status for at least 90 consecutive days to claim such tax exemption. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
S00896 | Requires the inclusion of local and municipal animal shelters, a society for the prevention of cruelty to animals and veterinary services when establishing local comprehensive emergency management plans; requires that information to the public include the communication accommodation needs of persons with vision or hearing impairments and information on which temporary housing and other necessary facilities are designated as animal-friendly. | Crossed Over | 01/08/2025 |
S00909 | Relates to establishing the municipal severe storm relief fund for Rockaway, Queens to be administered by the division of homeland security and emergency services for damages that occurred as a result of Hurricane Sandy which caused damage from October twenty-ninth through November third, two thousand twelve. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
S01009 | Authorizes a veteran's close friend or family who is reasonably familiar with such veteran's wishes to request that such veteran be buried in a state veterans' cemetery. | Crossed Over | 01/08/2025 |
S01176 | Establishes certain protections related to the receipt of compensation for advising or assisting with veterans' benefits matters, including penalties for violations. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
S01183 | Establishes a real property tax exemption for the primary residence of veterans with a 100 percent service connected disability. | Crossed Over | 01/08/2025 |
S01185 | Establishes the congressional chartered veterans service organizations fund; provides for gifts made to such fund on an individual's personal income tax return. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
S01188 | Requires a 120-day warning period for violations at congressionally chartered veterans' organization facilities. | Crossed Over | 01/08/2025 |
S01242 | Revises the New York state veteran's memorial and monument registry such that it is easier to navigate and has deadlines for the submission of memorials and monuments and the updating of the registry. | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
S01250 | Relates to academic credit for veterans with regard to credit for SUNY and CUNY college credits for courses that were part of the student veterans' military training; defines "veteran". | In Committee | 01/08/2025 |
S01435 | Restores the legislative checks and balances to any emergency declaration that exceeds forty-five days; ensures judicial due process rights for any action that impairs fundamental constitutional rights by limiting the powers of the governor to suspend laws during a state disaster emergency; requires a specification and explanation of which municipalities are affected by such suspension of laws. | In Committee | 01/09/2025 |
S01480 | Grants free access and parking at state parks for active-duty military members and veterans upon showing an active-duty military or veteran's ID card. | In Committee | 01/10/2025 |
S01625 | Directs the division of military and naval affairs to establish policies relating to security and protection of New York national guard and air national guard recruiting centers. | In Committee | 01/13/2025 |
S01788 | Extends eligibility for real property tax exemptions to veterans who served on a submarine or on classified missions during a period of war as documented by military service records. | Crossed Over | 01/13/2025 |
S01866 | Relates to establishing a green alert system for missing military members. | In Committee | 01/14/2025 |
S01868 | Provides a tax exemption for U.S. military reservists and members of the National Guard. | In Committee | 01/14/2025 |
S01880 | Directs the commissioner of the division of homeland security and emergency services to conduct an after-action review study on the state's COVID-19 pandemic response; directs the commissioner to submit a report on such study after 1 year and make such report publicly available on its website, and share such report with the CDC. | In Committee | 01/14/2025 |
S01889 | Designates the state of New York a purple heart state. | In Committee | 05/28/2025 |
S01906 | Authorizes the legislature to modify an executive order. | In Committee | 01/14/2025 |
S01924 | Authorizes a county, city, town or village to override a governor's declaration of a state disaster emergency in all or part of the territorial limits of such local government. | In Committee | 01/14/2025 |
S02016 | Provides a right of reemployment for persons who reside in another state who are ordered to military service within New York state, if the state of residence provides a like protection. | In Committee | 01/14/2025 |
S02067 | Establishes the veteran career assistance program within the SUNY and CUNY systems to provide veterans with assistance in resume writing and employment placement services. | Crossed Over | 01/15/2025 |
S02068 | Authorizes municipalities to offer a real property tax exemption for active military service members who at any time during the taxable year performed active duty in the armed forces in a combat zone; defines terms; makes related provisions. | Crossed Over | 01/15/2025 |
S02069 | Establishes the position of an insurance liaison on the disaster preparedness commission to be appointed by the governor and serve as a non-voting member. | Crossed Over | 01/15/2025 |
S02070 | Requires the department of veterans' services to establish and maintain, in consultation and collaboration with other state agencies, a searchable database on the department's website providing resources available in the state for veterans, members of the uniformed services, and their families. | Crossed Over | 01/15/2025 |
S02071 | Requires the department of labor create and maintain a list of available careers and job openings for veterans in the state of New York and provide such list to the department of veterans' services; requires such list to be placed on the department of veterans' services website. | Crossed Over | 01/15/2025 |
S02073 | Requires the department of motor vehicles compile a list of veterans who apply for a veteran driver's license and provide such list to the department of veterans' services to aid in outreach efforts by the department of veterans' services. | Crossed Over | 01/15/2025 |
S02143 | Allows any veteran who has served this nation to be awarded a high school degree based on their knowledge and experience gained while in service. | In Committee | 01/15/2025 |
S02290 | Requires all forms issued to the public by the state include an optional question regarding veteran status and whether the person completing the form would consent to the agency sharing their contact information with regards to resources available to veterans. | In Committee | 01/16/2025 |
S02313 | Establishes a leave of absence for veterans on Veterans Day, November 11th. | In Committee | 01/16/2025 |
S02336 | Provides that personnel at New York national guard and air national guard recruiting centers be permitted to carry a firearm. | In Committee | 01/16/2025 |
S02582 | Provides that the state shall cover the cost of maintenance and operation of local veterans' service agencies up to certain set limits. | In Committee | 01/21/2025 |
S02607 | Exempts certain veterans service organizations from taxes on the sales of beer, wine and soda. | In Committee | 01/21/2025 |
S02623 | Relates to the employment of veterans with disabilities program. | In Committee | 01/21/2025 |
S02717 | Permits a military spouse to practice an occupation upon submission of licensure, certification or registration to practice an equivalent occupation issued by any other state; provided the licensure standards are not lower than those of this state. | In Committee | 01/22/2025 |
S02723 | Provides veterans free use of cabins and cottages located in public places of recreation within the state. | In Committee | 01/22/2025 |
S03023 | Directs the department of veterans' services 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. | In Committee | 01/23/2025 |
S03093 | Determines that disability compensation or benefits received by veterans from the United States department of veterans affairs are not to be treated as income or resources for purposes of determining eligibility for means-tested programs. | In Committee | 01/23/2025 |
S03128 | Permits private employers to adopt a veterans' hiring preference policy. | In Committee | 01/23/2025 |
S03194 | Relates to defining "period of war" for the alternative veterans' exemption; includes more recent hostilities in the definition of "period of war". | Crossed Over | 01/24/2025 |
S03229 | Allows the immediate family of a member of the armed forces killed in active duty to qualify for the alternate veterans exemption. | In Committee | 01/24/2025 |
S03312 | Authorizes media members to have access to areas otherwise restricted to the public during public emergencies. | In Committee | 01/24/2025 |
S03318 | Authorizes additional paid leave for public employees who are absent on military duty up to sixty days or fifty-two working days. | Crossed Over | 01/24/2025 |
S03326 | Establishes the "New York's Own combat veterans healthcare choice program act" to establish tax free savings accounts to pay the healthcare costs of combat veterans on active duty during Operation Enduring Freedom or Operation Iraqi Freedom, until covered by the federal government; directs the division of military and naval affairs to establish a registry of Afghanistan and Iraq veterans. | In Committee | 01/24/2025 |
S03370 | Directs the department of homeland security and emergency services to conduct a study on domestic terrorism within the state and to make recommendations to address such terrorism. | In Committee | 01/27/2025 |
S03504 | Provides real property tax relief to veterans who have at least ten years of service in the U.S. armed forces or in the organized militia of the state of New York. | In Committee | 01/28/2025 |
S03533 | Allows for the governor to create a period of enhanced penalties during a disaster; creates enhanced penalties for certain disaster related crimes during public emergencies. | In Committee | 01/28/2025 |
S03649 | Requires that local governments comply with a detainer request issued by a federal law enforcement agency; requires that such local government not interfere with the ability of federal law enforcement officials to conduct enforcement activities at municipal or county jails in furtherance of their duty to enforce federal laws. | In Committee | 01/29/2025 |
S03767 | Requires the state university of New York and the city university of New York to examine and conduct a study on the availability of campus services, programs and resources for veteran students. | In Committee | 01/29/2025 |
S03800 | Requires operators of nuclear power plants (or designee) to give notice of: scheduled releases of radioactive materials at least 24 hours before the release is planned to occur; unscheduled releases of such materials as soon as possible, but not more than 24 hours after discovery of the release; and breakdowns or malfunctions; specifies that such notice shall be given to specified parties, including to the public via a toll free number; specifies elements to be contained in the notice (i.e. the | In Committee | 01/30/2025 |
S03802 | Relates to extensions of state and local deadlines following a state disaster emergency; adds school district to the list of municipality and district corporations; relates to the prerequisites, time and scope thereof. | In Committee | 01/30/2025 |
S03834 | Directs the division of homeland security and emergency services to develop rules and regulations relating to truck rental security; requires any person or organization in the business of renting trucks, vans or trailers to the public to be registered with the state. | In Committee | 01/30/2025 |
S04013 | Establishes a peer support program for veterans. | In Committee | 01/31/2025 |
S04138 | Establishes a legislative intelligence committee to provide oversight, review, approval and audits of appropriations and expenditures of counterterrorism agencies. | In Committee | 02/03/2025 |
S04218 | Relates to providing veterans' housing; requires state agencies that provide shelter to homeless veterans to do so based on federal housing first principles without preconditions or barriers. | In Committee | 02/03/2025 |
S04292 | Enacts the "NY Cares Act", providing course credit for service members and tuition awards for spouses and children of deceased service members. | In Committee | 02/03/2025 |
S04358 | Expands the veterans tuition awards program to allow the transfer of unused benefits to a spouse, survivor or child; defines terms. | Crossed Over | 02/04/2025 |
S04362 | Requires local disaster preparedness plans to include a public education component as part of disaster prevention, which shall be widely disseminated and shall take into consideration the linguistic and cultural characteristics of the inhabitants. | In Committee | 02/04/2025 |
S04528 | Provides that veterans who are NY residents may use state parks, recreation facilities and historic sites without fees. | In Committee | 02/06/2025 |
S04529 | Provides that the attorney general, in consultation with the adjutant general and the chair of the board of trustees of the New York interest on lawyer account fund, establish a military pro bono program to provide legal assistance without charge to those in active military service of the United States and those military personnel who have been deployed for active duty other than training, and their family members domiciled or stationed in the state; makes related provisions. | In Committee | 02/06/2025 |
S04530 | Exempts military members based at Fort Hamilton, Brooklyn, New York and Fort Wadsworth, Staten Island, New York on active duty who reside in NYC from the payment of E-ZPass tolls associated with the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge. | In Committee | 02/06/2025 |
S04597 | Directs the division of veterans' services to establish a searchable database of veteran-owned businesses; requires the use of a special mark to indicate service-disabled veteran-owned businesses. | In Committee | 02/10/2025 |
S04675 | Empowers the office of fire prevention and control to, in coordination with the commissioner of the office for people with developmental disabilities and the chief disability officer, provide minimum basic training related to handling emergency situations involving individuals with any physical and/or developmental disability to all firefighters. | In Committee | 02/11/2025 |
S04742 | Provides a real property tax exemption for property owned by active duty service members of the armed forces of the United States in taxing jurisdictions which elect to provide a veterans exemption. | In Committee | 02/12/2025 |
S04752 | Establishes a program for the sharing of veteran contact information. | In Committee | 02/12/2025 |
S04889 | Relates to defining veteran; includes national guard members who have served for at least twenty years, part of which was during any war or period of hostilities. | Crossed Over | 02/13/2025 |
S05036 | Requires facilities offering dialysis services to have an alternate generated power source for use during a general power outage or disaster emergency; provides exemptions. | In Committee | 02/18/2025 |
S05102 | Relates to the length of time of a state disaster emergency declaration; requires the governor to transmit a weekly report to the legislature during a state disaster emergency; relates to the communication between the governor and parties affected by a suspension of laws during a state disaster emergency. | In Committee | 02/19/2025 |
S05124 | Requires the department of veterans' services to provide legal and/or technical support to veterans who want to change their discharged status to honorable because such person was dishonorably or administratively discharged from the armed services due to sexual orientation. | In Committee | 02/19/2025 |
S05136 | Directs the commissioner of the division of homeland security and emergency services to conduct a review and analysis of the security measures taken at the transportation facilities of the metropolitan transportation authority and its subsidiaries; requires such director to issue confidential reports of their findings and recommendations. | In Committee | 02/19/2025 |
S05207 | Establishes a childcare program to provide active duty members of the New York national guard assistance in locating, selecting, and offsetting the cost of civilian childcare when on-base childcare is not available to such members. | In Committee | 02/19/2025 |
S05210 | Provides for reimbursement for certain insurance premiums for certain members of the naval militia, New York air, army national guard, and New York guard. | In Committee | 02/19/2025 |
S05230 | Expands eligibility for loans and grants pursuant to the resilient retrofits loan and grant program for private sewer repairs and upgrades; establishes the resilient retrofits loan and grant fund. | In Committee | 02/19/2025 |
S05246 | Expands the definition of veteran to include members of the commissioned corps of the NOAA and the commissioned corps of the public health service; expands access to certain benefits to those who served in the commissioned corps of the NOAA and the commissioned corps of the public health service. | In Committee | 02/20/2025 |
S05300 | Allows reservists who have served or who are currently serving in the United States armed forces to be eligible for 2.5 points on civil service examinations. | In Committee | 02/20/2025 |
S05350 | Relates to veterans' eligibility for public housing; expands eligibility requirements to include veterans of the recent conflicts; requires granting of a preference for public housing to veterans or families of veterans who have a military service connected disability. | In Committee | 02/20/2025 |
S05377 | Relates to participation by veterans with respect to state contracts by expanding Article 3 of the veterans' services law to cover all veteran-owned business enterprises instead of only service-disabled veteran-owned business enterprises; makes related corrections in law. | In Committee | 02/21/2025 |
S05397 | Relates to certificates of honorable separation from or service in the armed forces of the United States; provides that such certificates shall be forwarded to the appropriate local veterans' service agency within 60 days of receipt. | Crossed Over | 02/21/2025 |
S05398 | Relates to New York state active duty performed under the authority of the governor of New York state. | In Committee | 02/21/2025 |
S05588 | Expands the Gold Star exemption by including the War on Terror as a qualifying period of war and allows for the exemption where the Gold Star Parent's child has died in the United States from a service-connected disability. | In Committee | 02/25/2025 |
S05729 | Adds hazardous air quality to the state definition of a disaster; requires explicit inclusion of air quality emergency preparedness in local comprehensive emergency management plans with an action plan and annual inventory of air quality emergency resources. | Crossed Over | 02/28/2025 |
S05733 | Relates to the cost of maintenance and operation of veterans' service agencies. | In Committee | 02/28/2025 |
S05805 | Establishes the community disaster relief and recovery act which will create an emergency assistance program for undocumented individuals impacted by a natural disaster. | In Committee | 03/03/2025 |
S05855 | Establishes a supplemental burial allowance for certain first responders. | In Committee | 03/03/2025 |
S05946 | Enacts the "Technical Sergeant Joseph G. Lemm tuition benefit act" to allow members of the New York state organized militia to receive tuition benefits for certain post-secondary degree programs. | In Committee | 03/04/2025 |
S05958 | Requires counties to maintain a registry of people of all ages with disabilities for the purpose of evacuating and sheltering such persons during disasters. | In Committee | 03/04/2025 |
S05962 | Relates to certain veterans; entitles them to 10 additional competitive civil service exam points if they are disabled; entitles them to 5 additional competitive civil service exam points if they are non-disabled and if they received certain medals or ribbons. | In Committee | 03/04/2025 |
S05967 | Authorizes the governor's disaster emergency production powers by allowing the prioritization of certain contracts and the allocation of materials and services; permits the restriction of certain accumulations to promote the health, safety and general welfare of the state. | In Committee | 03/04/2025 |
S06005 | Establishes the hire a vet grant program; provides grants to municipalities where a veteran is hired and employed, for not less than twelve continuous and uninterrupted months in a full-time or part-time position. | In Committee | 03/04/2025 |
S06132 | Relates to the alternative veterans property tax exemption; authorizes active members of the military to apply for such exemption. | In Committee | 03/05/2025 |
S06139 | Provides that every person who has served in more than one time of war shall be entitled to additional credit as a veteran or disabled veteran in competitive examinations for original appointment or promotion for every such time of war during which such person served, regardless of whether any such person has utilized such credit for a competitive examination for original appointment or a competitive examination for promotion. | In Committee | 03/05/2025 |
S06424 | Establishes a weekend child day care assistance program to provide for child day care at a child care provider for New York army and air national guard members on drill weekends. | In Committee | 03/13/2025 |
S06559 | Increases, at local option, real property tax exemptions for combat veterans who are 100% permanently disabled. | In Committee | 03/17/2025 |
S06661 | Establishes the "New York state veterans cemetery act"; directs the division to conduct an investigation and study on the issue of the establishment of a New York state veterans cemetery funding program. | Crossed Over | 03/19/2025 |
S06708 | Relates to the award of competitive civil service status for the spouse or children of military service persons killed in the line of duty. | In Committee | 03/20/2025 |
S06709 | Increases civil service credits given to veterans currently returning from service. | In Committee | 03/20/2025 |
S06726 | Relates to additional credit allowed veterans in competitive examinations; expands the definition of "veteran" and "non-disabled veteran" to include the spouse and/or children of a member of the armed forces of the United States who served therein in time of war and was subsequently killed in the line of duty. | In Committee | 03/20/2025 |
S06826 | Requires that the state system for warning populations who are or may be endangered includes audible alerts for all announcements to ensure that information is accessible to visually impaired individuals. | In Committee | 03/25/2025 |
S06832 | Relates to participation in World Trade Center rescue, recovery and cleanup operations by members of the organized militia; provides that members of the organized militia shall qualify as employees for the purposes of making a claim under the workers' compensation law for participation in the World Trade Center rescue, recovery and cleanup operations. | Crossed Over | 03/25/2025 |
S06964 | Provides that when the governor declares a weather related state of emergency in a city having a population of one million or more, all public and private elementary and secondary schools shall be closed and remain closed until such emergency is terminated. | In Committee | 03/27/2025 |
S07084 | Provides for the application of veterans' real property tax exemptions in cities having a population of one million or more. | In Committee | 04/01/2025 |
S07129 | Relates to veterans' health care; creates a veteran health care review to ensure veterans and their families have access to health and mental health treatment, including for post-traumatic stress disorder, depression, anxiety, military sexual trauma, reproductive and mental health conditions, and suicide prevention. | In Committee | 04/01/2025 |
S07185 | Authorizes guidelines for granting contracts to disabled veterans eligible under the access to home for heroes program. | In Committee | 04/03/2025 |
S07244 | Provides eligibility for a real property tax exemption for current or retired military reservists based on participation in formal training activities. | In Committee | 04/07/2025 |
S07250 | Increases the amount combat veterans shall be exempt from real property taxation to thirty-five percent. | In Committee | 04/07/2025 |
S07300 | Provides for the "Campaign Medal for Service" to be awarded to those who have provided military service in Iraq. | In Committee | 04/09/2025 |
S07443 | Relates to participation by LGBT, disability and veteran-owned businesses in state contracts. | In Committee | 04/16/2025 |
S07446 | Exempts veterans from the payment of certain fees relating to corporations. | In Committee | 04/16/2025 |
S07708 | Establishes a veterans' bill of rights; provides sample language for such bill of rights; requires the department of veterans' services to establish and distribute a veterans' bill of rights and to make such bill of rights available on the departments website. | In Committee | 05/01/2025 |
S07765 | Establishes a New York state veterans' and service member law book of a compilation of all state statutes governing the rights, privileges, benefits and services afforded to veterans, service members and their families. | In Committee | 05/05/2025 |
S07786 | Authorizes the Department of Veterans' Services to consult and collaborate with relevant offices in the federal department of veterans affairs, the department of health, the state office for the aging and other HCBS experts to develop educational materials for veterans and their families about the accessibility to home and community-based services. | In Committee | 05/06/2025 |
S07850 | Authorizes the presentation of a New York State Cold War Commemorative Medal for active duty during the period of September 2, 1945 through December 26, 1991. | In Committee | 05/09/2025 |
S08055 | Expands eligibility for admission to New York state veterans' homes to certain veterans who have an immediate family member who shall have been a resident of this state for one year prior to the date of application for admission; defines an immediate family member to include a spouse, birth parent, adoptive parent, child, sibling, stepparent, stepchild, stepsibling, grandparent and grandchild. | In Committee | 05/15/2025 |
S08057 | Provides additional tax exemptions on qualifying residential real property where two or more qualified veterans live in the same household. | In Committee | 05/15/2025 |
S08146 | Directs the department of veterans' services to conduct a study about veterans' employment review. | In Committee | 05/15/2025 |
S08150 | Protects veterans from fraud and unaccredited representatives; institutes a civil penalty of up to $10,000 for violation; establishes the class A misdemeanor crime of unaccredited representation of a veteran; establishes a veterans' services fund. | Crossed Over | 05/15/2025 |
S08233 | Authorizes agencies to procure goods, services and construction from special veteran emerging business enterprises; defines special veteran emerging business enterprises. | Crossed Over | 06/12/2025 |
S08247 | Makes technical corrections relating to the title of the commissioner of veterans' services. | In Committee | 05/27/2025 |