S 3023: Directs the department of veterans' services to establish and operate an electronic database of the number of openings in each of the 4 state veterans' homes and the number of persons on the waiting list for each such veterans' home.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 3023 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE January 23, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sen. ORTT -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Veterans, Homeland Securi- ty and Military Affairs AN ACT to amend the veterans' services law and the public health law, in relation to directing the department of veterans' services to estab- lish and operate a publicly accessible electronic database of the availability of openings for admission to state veterans' homes The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 4 of the veterans' services law is amended by 2 adding a new subdivision 40 to read as follows: 3 40. To, in consultation and cooperation with the department of health, 4 establish and operate an internet website electronic database, accessi- 5 ble to the public, which provides the number of available openings for 6 eligible individuals at each state veterans' home operated pursuant to 7 article twenty-six-A of the public health law. In addition, such elec- 8 tronic database shall, for each such veterans' home, provide the number 9 of eligible individuals who are on the waiting list for admission to the 10 state veterans' home and information on the admission process including, 11 but not limited to, eligibility requirements relating to military 12 service history, honorable discharge, service connected disability, and 13 skilled nursing needs. The department and the department of health shall 14 jointly ensure that the information posted on the electronic database 15 established pursuant to this subdivision is maintained and updated on a 16 real time basis as such information changes. 17 § 2. The public health law is amended by adding a new section 2636 to 18 read as follows: 19 § 2636. State veterans' home electronic database. The department shall 20 fully cooperate with the department of veterans' services to establish 21 and operate the electronic database provided for in subdivision forty of 22 section four of the veterans' services law, and provide information EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD06902-01-5 
 S. 3023 2 1 relating to the state veterans' homes operated pursuant to this article 2 to such division on a real time basis. 3 § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after 4 it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amend- 5 ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen- 6 tation of this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and 7 completed on or before such effective date.