S8055 (2025-26 session)
NY State bill
Expands eligibility for admission to New York state veterans' homes to certain veterans who have an immediate family member who shall have been a resident of this state for six months prior to the date of application for admission; defines an immediate family member to include a spouse, or a birth or adoptive parent, child, sibling, stepparent, stepchild, stepsibling, grandparent and grandchild; requires, where applicable, the immediate family member of a veteran applicant to file an affidavit of New York state residence; authorizes veterans with an immediate family member who has been a New York state resident for six months to be entitle to admission to the Long Island state veterans home at Stony Brook university.
- Title
- Relates to eligibility for admission to New York state veterans' homes
- Type
- New York State Senate bill
- Session
- 2025-26 session
- Status
- In Senate Committee
- Latest action date
- 2026-05-18
- In committee
- Health
- Introduced
- 2025-05-15
- Active version
- S8055A
- Same as
- A8365
- Law section
- Public Health Law
Sponsors
Heard in committee
- Health NY State Senate committee
- Veterans, Homeland Security And Military Affairs NY State Senate committee
Same as
- A8365 (2025-26 session) NY State bill
Committee meetings
Committee meetings that took this bill up, from the Senate's published agendas. The Assembly does not publish its committee agendas in machine-readable form, so an Assembly committee's consideration of a bill is not on this list.
- Veterans, Homeland Security And Military Affairs, 2026-05-18 Referred to committee; referred to Health