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

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

Relates to the issuance of a cold war certificate. / Sponsor: ADAMS Committee: VETERANS, HOMELAND SECURITY AND MILITARY AFFAIRS

Allows veterans who performed military service during a period of war to ride public transportation free of charge for the year immediately after his or her return to this state. / Sponsor: SMITH Committee: VETERANS, HOMELAND SECURITY AND MILITARY AFFAIRS

Updates statute directing agencies to seek information on the status of veterans receiving assistance to promote referral of veterans to agencies for benefits. / Sponsor: LANZA 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

Relates to the security of telecommunications service centers and their assets. / Sponsor: PARKER 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: PARKER 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

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

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

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

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

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

Authorizes veteran's credits to be added to an individual's civil service examination. / Sponsor: ROBACH 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

Includes the war on terrorism which commenced in 2001, within the definition of "period of war" for purposes of the veterans alternative property tax exemption. / Sponsor: FUSCHILLO 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