S4889 • 2025

Relates to defining veteran

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Sponsor: Jessica Scarcella-Spanton
Last action: 2026-05-18
Official status: In Senate Committee
Effective date: Not listed

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Relates to defining veteran

Relates to defining veteran 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.

What This Bill Does

Relates to defining veteran 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.

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Bill History

2026-05-18 Senate
REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE
2026-01-07 Assembly
DIED IN ASSEMBLY
2026-01-07 Assembly
RETURNED TO SENATE
2026-01-07 Senate
REFERRED TO VETERANS, HOMELAND SECURITY AND MILITARY AFFAIRS
2025-06-10 Senate
PASSED SENATE
2025-06-10 Senate
DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
2025-06-10 Assembly
REFERRED TO VETERANS' AFFAIRS
2025-06-09 Senate
COMMITTEE DISCHARGED AND COMMITTED TO RULES
2025-06-09 Senate
ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.1622
2025-05-28 Senate
REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE
2025-02-13 Senate
REFERRED TO VETERANS, HOMELAND SECURITY AND MILITARY AFFAIRS

Official Summary Text

Relates to defining veteran
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.

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

                                          4889

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                                    I N  S E N A T E

                                    February 13, 2025
                                       ___________

        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, in relation to defining
          veteran

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

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 1 of the veterans' services law is
     2  amended to read as follows:
     3    3.  The term "veteran" means a person who served on active duty in the
     4  uniformed services of the United States,  or  WHO  SERVED  in  the  army
     5  national  guard,  air  national  guard, NEW YORK GUARD OR NEW YORK NAVAL
     6  MILITIA FOR AT LEAST TWENTY YEARS OF SERVICE, PART OF WHICH  WAS  DURING
     7  ANY  WAR  OR PERIOD OF HOSTILITIES, or service as a commissioned officer
     8  in the public health  service,  commissioned  officer  of  the  national
     9  oceanic   and   atmospheric  administration  or  environmental  sciences
    10  services administration, cadet at a United States armed  forces  service
    11  academy,  and  who  has been released from such service under other than
    12  dishonorable conditions.
    13    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD09182-01-5