Authorizes municipalities to grant a real property tax credit during the first year a veteran or veterans become eligible for the alternative veterans tax exemption. / Sponsor: JOHNSON Committee: VETERANS, HOMELAND SECURITY AND MILITARY AFFAIRS

Excludes a social security number or card from documentation required to renew an existing driver's license. / Sponsor: DIAZ Committee: VETERANS, HOMELAND SECURITY AND MILITARY AFFAIRS

Provides that after a public hearing a school district may adopt a resolution providing a school tax exemption on residential property owned by a veteran with at least a forty percent disability; provides that in order to qualify for such an exemption, an individual shall submit to the assessor a certified statement from the bureau of veterans' affairs stating that he has a permanent service related physical impairment which limits such individual's major life activities by at least forty percent. / Sponsor: GOLDEN Committee: VETERANS, HOMELAND SECURITY AND MILITARY AFFAIRS

Requires reports to the legislature concerning the number of veterans and families of active duty members who are homeless and the number of veterans who receive food stamps. / Sponsor: MCDONALD Committee: VETERANS, HOMELAND SECURITY AND MILITARY AFFAIRS

Requires annual reports to contain information specific to veteran-owned small businesses. / Sponsor: KENNEDY Committee: VETERANS, HOMELAND SECURITY AND MILITARY AFFAIRS

Relates to the definition of active duty for the purposes of the real property tax exemption for cold war veterans. / Sponsor: MARTINS Committee: VETERANS, HOMELAND SECURITY AND MILITARY AFFAIRS

Requires counties to maintain a registry of people of all ages with disabilities for the purpose of evacuating and sheltering such persons during disasters. / Sponsor: PARKER Committee: VETERANS, HOMELAND SECURITY AND MILITARY AFFAIRS

Expands the veterans tuition awards program to include all veterans who were discharged under honorable conditions who served in the armed forces after February 28, 1961. / Sponsor: ADDABBO Committee: VETERANS, HOMELAND SECURITY AND MILITARY AFFAIRS

Awards annuity to recipients of purple heart medals, who are identified as recipients under executive order 11016 and are New York state residents, annually for the amount of one thousand dollars. / Sponsor: STAVISKY Committee: VETERANS, HOMELAND SECURITY AND MILITARY AFFAIRS

Authorizes a real property tax exemption for active duty reservists upon adoption of a local law, ordinance or resolution providing therefor; requires property of such active duty reservists to be his or her primary residence and such active duty reservist must have retained his or her active duty status for at least 90 consecutive days to claim such tax exemption; defines "eligible reservist". / Sponsor: SAMPSON Committee: VETERANS, HOMELAND SECURITY AND MILITARY AFFAIRS

Increases from 10 to 13, the number of additional points granted to disabled veterans on competitive civil service original appointment exams; increases from 5 to 6 the number of additional points granted on promotion exams; and increases such points for non-disabled veterans from 5 to 8 on original appointment exams and from 2 1/2 to 3 1/2 on promotion exams. / Sponsor: SAMPSON Committee: VETERANS, HOMELAND SECURITY AND MILITARY AFFAIRS

Provides authorization to grant certain exemptions from real property tax for school districts to eligible veterans where such exemption is adopted by the governing body of the school district. / Sponsor: CARLUCCI Committee: VETERANS, HOMELAND SECURITY AND MILITARY AFFAIRS

Exempts veterans of World War II from any additional fees when they order license plates stating "World War II Veteran". / Sponsor: SAMPSON Committee: VETERANS, HOMELAND SECURITY AND MILITARY AFFAIRS

Authorizes municipalities to offer a real property tax exemption for property owned by certain persons performing active duty in a combat zone in an amount equal to ten percent of the value of the real property. / Sponsor: GOLDEN Committee: VETERANS, HOMELAND SECURITY AND MILITARY AFFAIRS

Extends the applicability of a certain provision in the Patriot Plan relating to the suspension of public retirement system loan repayment obligations. / Sponsor: ESPAILLAT Committee: VETERANS, HOMELAND SECURITY AND MILITARY AFFAIRS

Extends real property partial tax exemptions for qualified veterans to include taxes for school purposes. / Sponsor: GOLDEN Committee: VETERANS, HOMELAND SECURITY AND MILITARY AFFAIRS

Provides for the same real property tax exemption for veterans to persons in active duty and deployed to the Persian Gulf, and/or wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. / Sponsor: SQUADRON Committee: VETERANS, HOMELAND SECURITY AND MILITARY AFFAIRS

Provides that veterans in the active military, naval or air service who served during military operations in Lebanon, Grenada, Panama or the Persian Gulf, shall be eligible for the veterans alternate exemption from real property taxes. / Sponsor: KRUGER Committee: VETERANS, HOMELAND SECURITY AND MILITARY AFFAIRS

Creates a veterans long term health care authority for the purpose of enhancing health related services to veterans; provides that such authority shall construct and operate high quality patient care delivery to the state's veterans, respond quickly to changes in the health care environment, react immediately to any and all operational and physical problems, use, to the maximum extent, federal funds and capital grant funds from the veteran's administration state home program which will be used for construction and renovations of facilities, provide for the education of physicians and other health care professionals in gerontology, provide for an evaluation into resource allocation and patient care, establish high quality care standards, promote, among the residents of the veterans nursing home, high self-esteem, dignity and a quality of life, establish a supportive working environment for the direct care staff, and provide the highest level of care at the lowest possible cost. / Sponsor: KRUGER Committee: VETERANS, HOMELAND SECURITY AND MILITARY AFFAIRS

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 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. / Sponsor: KRUGER Committee: VETERANS, HOMELAND SECURITY AND MILITARY AFFAIRS