New York S 6661: Permits the court to grant post-conviction motions to vacate a judgment when the issue raised upon such motion is ineffective assistance of counsel

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S06661 Summary:

BILL NOS06661 

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COSPNSRLANZA

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Add §24-a, Veterans' Services L

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Establishes the "New York state veterans cemetery act"; directs the division to conduct an investigation and study on the issue of the establishment of a New York state veterans cemetery funding program.

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03/19/2025REFERRED TO VETERANS, HOMELAND SECURITY AND MILITARY AFFAIRS

06/12/2025COMMITTEE DISCHARGED AND COMMITTED TO RULES

06/12/2025ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.1993

06/13/2025PASSED SENATE

06/13/2025DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY

06/13/2025referred to veterans' affairs

01/07/2026died in assembly

01/07/2026returned to senate

01/07/2026REFERRED TO VETERANS, HOMELAND SECURITY AND MILITARY AFFAIRS

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 6661

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 March 19, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sens. GRIFFO, LANZA -- read twice and ordered printed, and
 when printed to be committed to the Committee on Veterans, Homeland
 Security and Military Affairs

 AN ACT to amend the veterans' services law, in relation to the estab-
 lishment of the New York state veterans cemetery act

 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
 bly, do enact as follows:

 1 Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may be cited as
 2 the "New York state veterans cemetery act".
 3 § 2. The veterans' services law is amended by adding a new section
 4 24-a to read as follows:
 5 § 24-a. Veterans cemetery funding promotion program. The department is
 6 hereby directed to establish, produce and conduct a New York state
 7 veterans cemetery funding promotion program. The purpose of the New York
 8 state veterans cemetery funding promotion program would be to encourage
 9 the giving of financial contributions, by individuals, groups and corpo-
 10 rations, to the veterans remembrance and cemetery maintenance and opera-
 11 tion fund, created pursuant to section ninety-seven-mmmm of the state
 12 finance law, which was established to provide funding for veterans ceme-
 13 teries pursuant to the New York state veterans cemetery program created
 14 under section twenty-four of this article. In establishing the New York
 15 state veterans cemetery funding promotion program, the department shall
 16 establish, produce and conduct programs, projects, and materials
 17 designed to encourage the giving of financial contributions, by individ-
 18 uals, groups and corporations, to the veterans remembrance and cemetery
 19 maintenance and operation fund. The department shall further seek, and
 20 may apply on behalf of the state of New York, for grants and contrib-
 21 utions, from governments and/or other institutional funding sources, for
 22 deposit in, and use by, the veterans remembrance and cemetery mainte-
 23 nance and operation fund, for the purpose of constructing, operating and
 24 financing New York state veterans cemeteries. Every year, not later than

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD09914-01-5

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 1 the fifteenth of December, the department shall produce a report of the
 2 activities and operation of the New York state veterans cemetery funding
 3 promotion program, and shall deliver a copy of such report to the gover-
 4 nor, the temporary president of the senate, the speaker of the assembly,
 5 the chair of the senate standing committee on veterans, homeland securi-
 6 ty and military affairs and the chair of the assembly standing committee
 7 on veterans' affairs. Such report shall contain information on the oper-
 8 ations and progress of the New York state veterans cemetery funding
 9 promotion program, as well as recommendations to the legislature on the
 10 New York state veterans cemetery funding promotion program, and estab-
 11 lishing, maintaining and operating state veterans cemeteries in accord-
 12 ance with the New York state veterans cemetery program.
 13 § 3. This act shall take effect immediat