New York S 5063: Relates to veteran information collected by certain facilities

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S05063 Summary:

BILL NOS05063 

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SPONSORASHBY

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Amd §2805-o, Pub Health L; amd §7, Veterans' Services L

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Requires nursing homes, residential health care facilities, and adult care facilities to ask patients if they have a service-connected disability rating from the federal department of veterans affairs; requires such information to be delivered to the department of veterans' services and transmitted to city and county veterans' services agencies and officers.

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BILL NOS05063 

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02/18/2025REFERRED TO HEALTH

01/07/2026REFERRED TO HEALTH

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 5063

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 February 18, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sen. ASHBY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
 printed to be committed to the Committee on Health

 AN ACT to amend the public health law and the veterans' services law, in
 relation to veteran information collected by certain facilities

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

 1 Section 1. Subdivisions 1 and 3 of section 2805-o of the public health
 2 law, as amended by chapter 75 of the laws of 2022, are amended to read
 3 as follows:
 4 1. Every nursing home and residential health care facility as defined
 5 in subdivisions two and three of section two thousand eight hundred one
 6 of this article and every adult care facility licensed and certified by
 7 the department pursuant to title two of article seven of the social
 8 services law or article forty-six-B of this chapter, including all adult
 9 homes, enriched housing programs, residences for adults, assisted living
 10 programs, and assisted living residences shall keep and maintain accu-
 11 rate records identifying veterans and their spouses residing within such
 12 facilities. Such information shall be solicited by nursing home and/or
 13 residential health care facility staff upon a patient's admission, noted
 14 on the admission form, and included with the patient's file by asking
 15 the [question] questions "Have you or your spouse ever served in the
 16 United States military?" and "Do you have a service-connected disability
 17 rating through the federal VA (department of veterans affairs)?". In the
 18 case of patients currently residing at such nursing homes or residential
 19 health care facilities, staff shall solicit such information by asking
 20 the [question] questions "Have you or your spouse ever served in the
 21 United States military?" and "Do you have a service-connected disability
 22 rating through the federal VA (department of veterans affairs)?" from
 23 each patient residing at such institution and update the patient's file
 24 to indicate veteran status.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD09296-01-5

 S. 5063 2

 1 3. Every nursing home, residential health care facility and every
 2 adult care facility licensed and certified by the department pursuant to
 3 title two of article seven of the social services law or article forty-
 4 six-B of this chapter, including all adult homes, enriched housing
 5 programs, residences for adults, assisted living programs, and assisted
 6 living residences, with the permission of individuals identifying them-
 7 selves as veterans or spouses of veterans, shall transmit [such] all
 8 veteran status information acquired pursuant to subdivision one of this
 9 section to the [division] department of veterans' services.
 10 § 2. Section 7 of the veterans' services law, as amended by chapter
 11 449 of the laws of 2024, is amended to read as follows:
 12 § 7. Information on status of veterans receiving assistance. Depart-
 13 ments, divisions, bureaus, boards, commissions and agencies of the state
 14 and political subdivisions thereof, which provide assistance, treatment,
 15 counseling, care, supervision or custody in service areas involving
 16 health, mental health, family services, criminal justice or empl