Senate Bill S5416

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Relates to certificates of honorable separation from or service in the armed forces of the United States

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Veterans, Homeland Security And Military Affairs Committee


  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2023-S5416 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A3093
Current Committee:
Senate Veterans, Homeland Security And Military Affairs
Law Section:
Veterans' Service Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §4, Veterans' Services L; amd §250, Mil L; amd §79-g, Civ Rts L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: S8792, A10196
2021-2022: S8567, A1782

2023-S5416 (ACTIVE) - Summary

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.

2023-S5416 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2023-S5416 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5416
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               March 3, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by Sen. SCARCELLA-SPANTON -- read twice and ordered printed,
   and when printed to be committed to the Committee on  Veterans,  Home-
   land Security and Military Affairs
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the veterans' services law, the military law and the
   civil rights law, in relation to certificates of honorable  separation
   from or service in the armed forces of the United States
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 4 of the  veterans'  services  law  is  amended  by
 adding a new subdivision 38 to read as follows:
   38.  TO RECEIVE A CERTIFICATE OF RELEASE OR DISCHARGE FROM ACTIVE DUTY
 WHICH WAS ISSUED BY THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT AND  DELIVERED  TO  THE
 DEPARTMENT,  AND  SHALL  FORWARD  SUCH  CERTIFICATE WITHIN SIXTY DAYS OF
 RECEIPT TO THE APPROPRIATE LOCAL VETERANS' SERVICE  AGENCY,  BASED  UPON
 THE  MAILING  ADDRESS  AFTER  SEPARATION NOTED ON SUCH CERTIFICATE. SUCH
 TRANSMISSION MAY BE MADE ELECTRONICALLY. INFORMATION CONTAINED  IN  SUCH
 CERTIFICATES  SHALL  BE  PROTECTED  AS PERSONAL CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION
 UNDER ARTICLE SIX-A OF THE PUBLIC OFFICERS  LAW  AGAINST  DISCLOSURE  OF
 CONFIDENTIAL MATERIAL, AND USED ONLY FOR INFORMATION AND ASSISTANCE WITH
 REGARDS TO STATE BENEFITS AND ENTITLEMENTS UNDER FEDERAL AND STATE LAW.
   § 2. Section 250 of the military law, as amended by chapter 298 of the
 laws of 2005, is amended to read as follows:
   § 250. Recording  certificates of honorable discharge. Any certificate
 issued after April sixth, nineteen hundred seventeen, of  the  honorable
 separation  from  or service in the armed forces of the United States of
 any veteran, may be recorded in any one county, in  the  office  of  the
 county clerk, and when so recorded shall constitute notice to all public
 officials  of  the  facts set forth therein. It shall be the duty of the
 county clerk to record the certificate upon presentation thereof without
 the payment of any fee. For any purpose for which the  original  certif-
 icate  may be required in the state of New York, a certified copy of the
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD02904-01-3
              

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