Bill Text: NY S01200 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Provides for an increase in the rates of annuities payable to veterans and surviving spouses of veterans.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 12-2)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2016-05-24 - referred to veterans' affairs [S01200 Detail]
Download: New_York-2015-S01200-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1200--A 2015-2016 Regular Sessions IN SENATE January 9, 2015 ___________ Introduced by Sens. MARCHIONE, DeFRANCISCO, FUNKE, LARKIN, LATIMER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Veterans, Homeland Security and Military Affairs -- recommitted to the Committee on Veterans, Homeland Security and Mili- tary Affairs in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to providing for an increase in the rates of annuities payable to veterans and surviving spouses of veterans The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 362 of the executive law, as amended by chapter 251 2 of the laws of 2004, is amended to read as follows: 3 § 362. Creation of annuity. 1. Payment to veterans. a. Any veteran as 4 defined in this article who has been or is hereafter classified by the 5 New York State commission for the visually handicapped as a blind person 6 as defined in section three of chapter four hundred fifteen of the laws 7 of nineteen hundred thirteen, as amended, and continues to be a blind 8 person within the meaning of that section, shall, upon application to 9 the director of the division of veterans' affairs, be paid out of the 10 treasury of the state for such term as such veteran shall be entitled 11 thereto under the provisions of this article, the sum of one thousand 12 five hundred dollars annually, plus any applicable annual adjustment, as 13 provided in this section. 14 b. The entitlement of any veteran to receive the annuity herein 15 provided shall terminate upon his or her ceasing to continue to be a 16 resident of and domiciled in the state, but such entitlement may be 17 reinstated upon application to the director of veterans' affairs, if 18 such veteran shall thereafter resume his or her residence and domicile 19 in the state. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD02576-04-6
