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NY A10763
Bill
Status
4/20/2010
Primary Sponsor
Robert Barra
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AI Summary
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Establishes the Yellow Ribbon Reintegration Program to provide National Guard members and their families with information, services, and support throughout the four phases of military deployment: pre-deployment, deployment, demobilization, and post-deployment reconstitution.
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Creates an Office for Reintegration Programs with ten full-time enlisted personnel to administer reintegration programs and coordinate with state organizations and federal offices, requiring annual reports to the legislature on program implementation and resource needs.
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Requires National Guard members deploying to combat zones to complete pre-deployment and post-deployment post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury questionnaires, with exemptions for similar federal questionnaires already completed.
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Allows criminal defendants who served in combat zones to plead not responsible by reason of mental disease or defect stemming from service, with courts authorized to order treatment at veteran-focused facilities instead of imprisonment in appropriate cases.
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Appropriates $500,000 to the Division of Military and Naval Affairs and requires the Division of Veterans' Affairs, Office of Mental Health, and Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services to establish coordinated mental health and rehabilitative services for veterans, National Guard members, armed forces reserves, and their family members.
Legislative Description
Establishes the yellow ribbon reintegration program and makes an appropriation therefore; includes the adjutant general and the director of reintegration and the directors of veterans affairs as members of the traumatic brain injury services coordinating council and includes additional toxic materials or harmful physical agents in the scope of information to be provided by the veterans health care information program; requires health screening of veterans for traumatic brain injury and post-traumatic stress disorder; allows a criminal defendant to plead to not responsible by reason of mental disease or defect stemming from service in a combat zone; includes in the scope of duties of the division of veterans affairs, the commissioner of the office of mental health and the commissioner of the office of alcoholism and substance abuse services the establishment of a program for mental health and rehabilitative services for veterans, members of the New York national guard and residents in the armed forces reserves and their family members; makes an appropriation therefor.
Last Action
referred to veterans' affairs
4/20/2010