Bill Text: NY A09169 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to burial of veterans of the armed forces.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-03-23 - substituted by s6425 [A09169 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A09169-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          9169
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 1, 2016
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  DenDEKKER  --  read once and referred to the
          Committee on Veterans' Affairs
        AN ACT to amend the general municipal law,  in  relation  to  burial  of
          veterans of the armed forces of the United States
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Subdivision 1-a of section 148  of  the  general  municipal
     2  law,  as added by chapter 579 of the laws of 2015, is amended to read as
     3  follows:
     4    1-a. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this section,  in  the
     5  case of [an indigent] a veteran, as defined in section forty-two hundred
     6  three  of the public health law, who died in a county or the city of New
     7  York leaving no funds or insurance sufficient to pay funeral and  burial
     8  expenses  of  such veteran and such veteran has no next of kin or person
     9  of record previously designated to control his or her final  disposition
    10  pursuant  to  section four thousand two hundred one of the public health
    11  law, such county or the city of New York may request  a  [congressional]
    12  congressionally  chartered  veterans'  organization within the county or
    13  the city of New York where the decedent resided at the time of death, to
    14  engage the services of a funeral firm to conduct the funeral and  burial
    15  services.
    16    (b)  Such  organization  shall  incur  the  costs associated with such
    17  services, which shall include but not be limited to, the purchase  of  a
    18  suitable  container  for  burial,  the  funeral  director's  prices  for
    19  merchandise and services furnished, cost of a grave site and a  military
    20  funeral service at the cemetery to which such body shall be interred.
    21    (c)  The  county  or  the city of New York shall endeavor to make such
    22  requests to a diversity of congressionally chartered veterans' organiza-
    23  tions within their  jurisdiction,  in  an  effort  to  share  the  costs
    24  described  in  paragraph (b) of this subdivision in a fair and equitable
    25  manner.
    26    (d) The state shall  reimburse  such  [congressional]  congressionally
    27  chartered  [veteran]  veterans' organization for such funeral and burial
    28  service expenses for [indigent] veterans, except those  expenses  previ-
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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