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
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