Bill Text: NY A08068 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Establishes a supplemental burial allowance for certain first responders.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to governmental employees [A08068 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A08068-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8068

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                   September 27, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  JEAN-PIERRE -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Governmental Employees

        AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to establishing a supple-
          mental burial allowance for certain first responders

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.  The section heading and subdivision 1 of section 354-b of
     2  the executive law, as amended by section 1 of part C of chapter  328  of
     3  the laws of 2014, are amended to read as follows:
     4    New  York state supplemental burial allowance for members of the armed
     5  forces of the United States killed in combat or duty subject to  hostile
     6  fire  or  imminent  danger,  as  defined in 37 USC § 310 and for certain
     7  certified first responders.  1. As used in this section, "parent"  means
     8  a  father,  a  mother,  a  father  through  adoption,  a  mother through
     9  adoption, or an individual who, for a period of not less than one  year,
    10  at  any time before the decedent's entry into active military service or
    11  at any time before September eleventh, two thousand one,  stood  in  the
    12  relationship  of  a  parent  to  a  decedent  who died in combat or duty
    13  subject to hostile fire or imminent danger, as defined in 37 USC §  310,
    14  or  who  died  from  a wound incurred in combat or while serving on duty
    15  subject to hostile fire or imminent danger, as defined in 37 USC §  310,
    16  or  who was a certified first responder who died as a result of a certi-
    17  fied World Trade Center medical condition or, if two  persons  stood  in
    18  the  relationship  of a parent for one year or more, the person who bore
    19  the expenses of the funeral of the decedent.
    20    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately; provided,  however,  that
    21  the amendments to section 354-b of the executive law made by section one
    22  of  this  act  shall  not affect the repeal of such section and shall be
    23  deemed repealed therewith.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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