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

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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-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         3084--B
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 22, 2015
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        Introduced  by M. of A. McDONALD, CRESPO, RAIA, McLAUGHLIN, STEC, STECK,
          KEARNS, LAWRENCE, GOTTFRIED, PAULIN, CERETTO, GUNTHER, CUSICK, THIELE,
          SIMANOWITZ, TEDISCO, RA, HAWLEY,  SKOUFIS,  RUSSELL,  CROUCH,  BUTLER,
          BARCLAY -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. HOOPER, LOPEZ, MOSLEY, RAMOS
          --  read  once  and  referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs --
          committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as  amended  and
          recommitted  to  said  committee  --  recommitted  to the Committee on
          Veterans' Affairs in accordance  with  Assembly  Rule  3,  sec.  2  --
          committee  discharged,  bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and
          recommitted to said committee
        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
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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