Requires veteran organizations to provide assistance to veterans which adequately addresses military sexual trauma experienced by veterans due to their military service.

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A10068-2011 Actions

• Jun 12, 2012: REFERRED TO RULES
• Jun 12, 2012: delivered to senate
• Jun 12, 2012: passed assembly
• Jun 11, 2012: ordered to third reading rules cal.140
• Jun 11, 2012: rules report cal.140
• Jun 11, 2012: reported
• Jun 7, 2012: print number 10068a
• Jun 7, 2012: amend (t) and recommit to rules
• Jun 6, 2012: reported referred to rules
• May 22, 2012: reported referred to ways and means
• May 2, 2012: referred to veterans' affairs

A10068-2011 Text

                      S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
  ________________________________________________________________________

                                    10068

                            I N  ASSEMBLY

                                 May 2, 2012
                                 ___________

  Introduced  by M. of A. RUSSELL -- read once and referred to the Commit-
    tee on Veterans' Affairs

  AN ACT to amend the executive  law  and  the  social  services  law,  in
    relation  to  developing  plans  to adequately address military sexual
    trauma

    THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
  BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:


    Section 1. Section 353 of the executive law is amended by adding a new
  subdivision 21 to read as follows:

    21.  TO  DEVELOP AND ENCOURAGE PLANS FOR ASSISTANCE AND BENEFITS WHICH
  ADEQUATELY ADDRESS MILITARY SEXUAL TRAUMA EXPERIENCED BY VETERANS DUE TO
  THEIR MILITARY SERVICE.
    S 2. The social services law is amended by adding a new section 179 to
  read as follows:

    S 179. ASSISTANCE TO VETERANS. PURSUANT TO SUBDIVISION  TWENTY-ONE  OF
  SECTION  THREE  HUNDRED  FIFTY-THREE  OF  THE EXECUTIVE LAW, ANY VETERAN
  ORGANIZATION DEFINED IN SUBDIVISION THREE OF SECTION ONE HUNDRED  SIXTY-
  EIGHT  OF  THIS  TITLE SHALL PROVIDE ASSISTANCE AND BENEFITS TO VETERANS
  WHICH ADEQUATELY ADDRESS MILITARY  SEXUAL  TRAUMA  EXPERIENCED  BY  SUCH
  VETERANS AS DEVELOPED BY THE STATE DIRECTOR OF VETERANS' AFFAIRS.
    S 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth 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.




   EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                        [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                             LBD15414-01-2