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