Bill Text: NY A10402 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 10402 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Provides for an annual adjustment for reimbursements for certain veterans funerals.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-05-13 - referred to veterans' affairs [A10402 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A10402-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          10402

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      May 13, 2022
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Barrett) --
          read once and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs

        AN ACT to amend the general municipal law, in relation to providing  for
          an annual adjustment for reimbursements for certain veterans funerals

          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-a  of  section  148  of  the
     2  general  municipal law, as amended by chapter 29 of the laws of 2016, is
     3  amended to read as follows:
     4    (d) The state shall reimburse such congressionally chartered veterans'
     5  organization for such funeral and burial service expenses for  veterans,
     6  except  those  expenses  previously  reimbursed  pursuant to section one
     7  hundred forty-one of the social services law or any other law  or  those
     8  expenses  reimbursable  or  payable  by the federal government; provided
     9  however, that the total reimbursement pursuant to this subdivision shall
    10  not exceed two thousand dollars per burial plus an annual adjustment for
    11  any increase in the costs of such funerals as determined by the New York
    12  state funeral director association.
    13    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.






         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14888-01-2