Bill Text: NY A02799 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 2799 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Bill Title: Provides for an increase in the rates of compensation for gold star parents.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 43-20)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-06-19 - substituted by s1124b [A02799 Detail]

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2799
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 23, 2017
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by M. of A. McDONALD, CRESPO, RAIA, McLAUGHLIN, STEC, STECK,
          KEARNS, LAWRENCE, GOTTFRIED, PAULIN, GUNTHER, CUSICK, THIELE, SIMANOW-
          ITZ, RA, HAWLEY, SKOUFIS, JENNE, CROUCH, BUTLER, COLTON,  DiPIETRO  --
          Multi-Sponsored  by  --  M.  of  A.  BRAUNSTEIN, HOOPER, LOPEZ, MAGEE,
          MOSLEY, RAMOS -- read once and referred to the Committee on  Veterans'
          Affairs
        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  executive  law, in relation to providing for an
          increase in the rates of compensation for gold star parents
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 1 of section 367 of the execu-
     2  tive  law,  as  added  by chapter 399 of the laws of 2007, is amended to
     3  read as follows:
     4    (a) A parent, identified in 10 USC 1126 as a gold star  parent,  of  a
     5  veteran  who heretofore has died or parent of a veteran dying hereafter,
     6  shall upon application to the state director, be paid an annual  annuity
     7  out of the treasury of the state for the sum of five hundred dollars for
     8  such  term as such parent shall be entitled thereto under the provisions
     9  of this article. [In no event shall such annual annuity  payment  exceed
    10  one  thousand  dollars  per  veteran]  The amount of any annuity payable
    11  under this section shall be the same amount as the  annuity  payable  in
    12  the  preceding  year,  increased  by  a  percentage  to be determined in
    13  accordance with a formula  established  by  the  division  of  veterans'
    14  affairs. The formula shall take into account all factors the division of
    15  veterans' affairs deems necessary, including, but not limited to factors
    16  such  as  the percentage by which benefit amounts payable under title II
    17  of the Social Security Act (42 USC 401 et seq.) are increased  effective
    18  December  first,  two  thousand  seventeen.    The term "parent" for the
    19  purposes of this section includes mother,  father,  stepmother,  stepfa-
    20  ther, mother through adoption and father through adoption.
    21    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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