S8150 (2025-26 session)
NY State bill
Protects veterans from fraud and unaccredited representatives; institutes a civil penalty of up to $10,000 for violation; establishes the class A misdemeanor crime of unaccredited representation of a veteran; establishes a veterans' services fund.
- Title
- Enacts the governing unaccredited representatives defrauding (GUARD) VA benefits act
- Type
- New York State Senate bill
- Session
- 2025-26 session
- Status
- Signed by Governor
- Latest action date
- 2025-11-05
- Introduced
- 2025-05-15
- Same as
- A8476
- Law section
- Veterans' Service Law
Sponsors
Co-sponsors
Heard in committee
- Codes NY State Assembly committee
- Rules NY State Senate committee
- Veterans, Homeland Security And Military Affairs NY State Senate committee
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.