Bill Text: NY S02413 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 3-1)

Status: (Engrossed) 2024-06-05 - returned to senate [S02413 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S02413-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         2413--C

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 20, 2023
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        Introduced by Sens. BAILEY, ASHBY -- read twice and ordered printed, and
          when  printed  to  be committed to the Committee on Veterans, Homeland
          Security and Military Affairs -- committee discharged,  bill  amended,
          ordered  reprinted  as  amended  and  recommitted to said committee --
          committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as  amended  and
          recommitted  to  said  committee  --  recommitted  to the Committee on
          Veterans, Homeland Security and Military 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 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. With respect  to  any  state
    11  fiscal  year,  the  commissioner  of  veterans' services shall provide a
    12  percentage increase in the maximum amount of funeral and burial  service
    13  expenses  payable under this paragraph, equal to the percentage by which
    14  (i) the consumer price index (all items, United States city average) for
    15  the twelve-month period ending on the March thirty-first  preceding  the
    16  beginning  of  the  state  fiscal  year  for which the increase is made,
    17  exceeds (ii) the  consumer  price  index  for  the  twelve-month  period
    18  preceding  the twelve-month period described in subparagraph (i) of this

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01440-08-4
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     1  paragraph. Such percentage increase shall be  rounded  up  to  the  next
     2  highest  one-tenth of one percent and shall not be less than one percent
     3  nor more than four percent. Commencing in the year two thousand  twenty-
     4  six,  the  commissioner  of  veterans' services, not later than February
     5  first of each year, shall publish the amount of the total reimbursement,
     6  as adjusted, payable under this section.
     7    § 2. This act shall take effect April 1, 2025.