Bill Text: NY A03084 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-12 - print number 3084b [A03084 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A03084-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         3084
                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   January 22, 2015
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       Introduced by M. of A. McDONALD -- read once and referred to the Commit-
         tee 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 THE SAME PERCENTAGE AS THE PERCENTAGE
   13  BY WHICH BENEFIT AMOUNTS PAYABLE UNDER TITLE II OF THE  SOCIAL  SECURITY
   14  ACT  (42  USC  401  ET SEQ.) ARE INCREASED EFFECTIVE DECEMBER FIRST, TWO
   15  THOUSAND FIFTEEN.  The term "parent" for the purposes  of  this  section
   16  includes mother, father, stepmother, stepfather, mother through adoption
   17  and father through adoption.
   18    S 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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