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A 8485Establishes voluntary opportunities for veterans

Congress · introduced 2025-05-16

Requires the department of veterans' services to provide information on the department's website on volunteer opportunities available to veterans and to post relevant application forms that a qualified veteran can use to apply for volunteer opportunities.

Latest action: 2025-12-19 SIGNED_BY_GOV

Sponsors

Action timeline

  1. · assembly REFERRED TO VETERANS' AFFAIRS
  2. · assembly REPORTED REFERRED TO RULES
  3. · assembly REPORTED
  4. · assembly RULES REPORT CAL.534
  5. · assembly ORDERED TO THIRD READING RULES CAL.534
  6. · assembly PASSED ASSEMBLY
  7. · assembly DELIVERED TO SENATE
  8. · senate REFERRED TO RULES
  9. · senate SUBSTITUTED FOR S274B
  10. · senate 3RD READING CAL.738
  11. · senate PASSED SENATE
  12. · senate RETURNED TO ASSEMBLY
  13. · assembly DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR
  14. · assembly SIGNED CHAP.666
  15. · assembly APPROVAL MEMO.47

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Inbound (7)

datefromtypeamountrolesource
2025-05-16Angelo Santabarbaracosponsor_of_billcosponsorsponsorship
2025-05-16Billy Jonescosponsor_of_billcosponsorsponsorship
2025-05-16Michael Dursocosponsor_of_billcosponsorsponsorship
2025-05-16Paula Kaycosponsor_of_billcosponsorsponsorship
2025-05-16Judy Griffincosponsor_of_billcosponsorsponsorship
2025-05-16Marianne Buttenschoncosponsor_of_billcosponsorsponsorship
2025-05-16Steve Sternsponsor_of_billsponsorsponsorship

Who matters

Members ranked by combined influence on this bill: role (sponsor 5 / cosponsor 1), capped speech count from the Congressional Record, and recorded-vote engagement.

#MemberRoleSpeechesVotedScore
1Steve Stern (, state_lower NY-10)sponsor05
2Angelo Santabarbara (, state_lower NY-111)cosponsor01
3Billy Jones (, state_lower NY-115)cosponsor01
4Judy Griffin (, state_lower NY-21)cosponsor01
5Marianne Buttenschon (, state_lower NY-119)cosponsor01
6Michael Durso (, state_lower NY-9)cosponsor01
7Paula Kay (, state_lower NY-100)cosponsor01

Predicted vote

Aggregated from: actual roll-call votes (when present) → sponsor → cosponsor → party median (predicts YES when ≥25% of the caucus sponsored/cosponsored). Each row labels its confidence tier so you can see why a position was predicted.

0 predicted yes (0%) · 543 predicted no (100%) · 0 unknown (0%)

By party: · R: 0 yes / 277 no · D: 0 yes / 263 no · I: 0 yes / 3 no

Activity

Every typed-graph event involving this entity, newest first. Each row is one edge in the influence graph; click the date to jump to its provenance.

  1. 2025-05-16 · cosponsored by Billy Jones (cosponsor) · sponsorship
  2. 2025-05-16 · cosponsored by Marianne Buttenschon (cosponsor) · sponsorship
  3. 2025-05-16 · sponsored by Steve Stern (sponsor) · sponsorship
  4. 2025-05-16 · cosponsored by Paula Kay (cosponsor) · sponsorship
  5. 2025-05-16 · cosponsored by Michael Durso (cosponsor) · sponsorship
  6. 2025-05-16 · cosponsored by Angelo Santabarbara (cosponsor) · sponsorship
  7. 2025-05-16 · cosponsored by Judy Griffin (cosponsor) · sponsorship

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