File #: Int 0503-2011    Version: * Name: Providing peer support services for veterans.
Type: Introduction Status: Filed
Committee: Committee on Veterans
On agenda: 3/23/2011
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the New York city charter, in relation to providing peer support services for veterans.
Sponsors: Mathieu Eugene, Fernando Cabrera , Leroy G. Comrie, Jr., Letitia James, Michael C. Nelson, Annabel Palma, Jumaane D. Williams, Vincent J. Gentile, Melissa Mark-Viverito, James Vacca, Daniel J. Halloran III
Council Member Sponsors: 11
Int. No. 503
 
By Council Members Eugene, Cabrera, Comrie, James, Nelson, Palma, Williams, Gentile, Mark-Viverito, Vacca and Halloran
 
 
A Local Law to amend the New York city charter, in relation to providing peer support services for veterans.
 
 
Be it enacted by the Council as follows:
 
Section 1.  Section 14 of the New York city charter is amended by adding a new subdivision e to read as follows:  
        e. The office of veterans' affairs shall establish a peer support hotline and other peer support services in partnership with veterans associations and organizations which service veterans.
         ยง2.   This local law shall take effect ninety days after it shall have been enacted into law.
   
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