New York A 6081: Relates to the donation of excess food and recycling of food scraps

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A06081 Summary:

BILL NOA06081 

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SAME ASSAME AS S04597

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SPONSORHunter

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COSPNSRButtenschon, Pheffer Amato, Rajkumar, Eachus, Otis, Burdick, McDonald

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MLTSPNSR

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Add §29-c, amd §4, Veterans' Services L

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Directs the division of veterans' services to establish a searchable database of veteran-owned businesses; requires the use of a special mark to indicate service-disabled veteran-owned businesses.

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BILL NOA06081 

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02/26/2025referred to veterans' affairs

01/07/2026referred to veterans' affairs

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 6081

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 February 26, 2025
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 Introduced by M. of A. HUNTER, BUTTENSCHON, PHEFFER AMATO, RAJKUMAR,
 EACHUS, OTIS, BURDICK -- read once and referred to the Committee on
 Veterans' Affairs

 AN ACT to amend the veterans' services law, in relation to establishing
 a searchable database of veteran-owned businesses

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

 1 Section 1. The veterans' services law is amended by adding a new
 2 section 29-c to read as follows:
 3 § 29-c. Veteran-owned business directory. 1. As used in this section
 4 the following terms shall have the following meanings:
 5 (a) "Business owned and controlled by veterans" means a business (i)
 6 not less than fifty-one percent of which is owned by one or more veter-
 7 ans, or, in the case of any publicly owned business, not less than
 8 fifty-one percent of the stock of which is owned by one or more veter-
 9 ans; (ii) the management and daily business operations of which are
 10 controlled by one or more veterans; and (iii) authorized to do business
 11 in the state and which is independently owned and operated.
 12 (b) "Veteran" means a person, as defined in section one of this arti-
 13 cle, who served on active duty and has been discharged or released ther-
 14 efrom under conditions other than dishonorable, or has a qualifying
 15 condition as defined in section one of this article and has received a
 16 discharge other than bad conduct or dishonorable, or is a discharged
 17 LGBT veteran as defined in section one of this article and has received
 18 a discharge other than bad conduct or dishonorable;
 19 (c) "Service-disabled veteran" shall have the same meaning as defined
 20 in section forty of this chapter;
 21 (d) "Certified service-disabled veteran-owned business enterprise"
 22 shall have the same meaning as defined in section forty of this chapter;
 23 and

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD09081-01-5

 A. 6081 2

 1 (e) "Veteran-owned business enterprises" shall mean businesses owned
 2 and controlled by veterans, and service-disabled veteran-owned business
 3 enterprises.
 4 2. The department, with the aid and assistance of the division of
 5 small business, the department of labor, the division of service-disa-
 6 bled veterans' business development, and the office of general services,
 7 shall develop, regularly update, and make available to state agencies
 8 and the public a directory of veteran-owned business enterprises which
 9 shall, wherever practicable, be divided into categories of labor,
 10 services, supplies, equipment, materials and recognized construction
 11 trades and which shall indicate areas or locations of the state where
 12 such enterprises are available to perform services. Such directory
 13 shall use an asterisk or other special mark to denote any veteran-owned
 14 business enterprises which are service-disabled veteran-owned business
 15 enterprises. Such directory shall be posted on the department's
 16 website.
 17 3. The office of general services shall also use this information to
 18 create and regularly update an internet based, searchable centralized
 19 state database to promote veteran-owned business enterprises to the
 20 public and shall post such database on the office of general services'
 21 website.
 22 4. The department with the office of gener