Bill Text: NY A09762 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Authorizes awards for burial expenses of crime victims to be paid to a business.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2016-08-18 - signed chap.243 [A09762 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A09762-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          9762
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                      April 5, 2016
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        Introduced  by  M.  of A. PEOPLES-STOKES -- (at request of the Office of
          Victim Services) -- read once and referred to the Committee on Govern-
          mental Operations
        AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to  the  eligibility  for
          reimbursement of burial expenses
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Paragraph (d) of subdivision 1 of section 624 of the execu-
     2  tive law, as amended by chapter 427 of the laws of 1999, is  amended  to
     3  read as follows:
     4    (d) any person or business represented by a person who has paid for or
     5  incurred  the burial expenses of a victim who died as a direct result of
     6  such crime, except such person shall not be eligible to receive an award
     7  for other than burial expenses unless otherwise eligible under paragraph
     8  (a), (b) or (c) of this subdivision;
     9    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and  shall  apply  to  all
    10  claims filed on or after it shall have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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