Bill Text: NY S03780 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Establishes the "New York state veterans cemetery act"; directs the division to conduct an investigation and study on the issue of the establishment of a New York state veterans cemetery funding program.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 5-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO VETERANS, HOMELAND SECURITY AND MILITARY AFFAIRS [S03780 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S03780-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3780
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    February 14, 2019
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        Introduced  by  Sens.  GRIFFO,  AKSHAR, LANZA, RITCHIE -- read twice and
          ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee  on
          Veterans, Homeland Security and Military Affairs
        AN  ACT  to amend the executive law, in relation to the establishment of
          the New York state veterans cemetery act
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Short  title. This act shall be known and may be cited as
     2  the "New York state veterans cemetery act".
     3    § 2. The executive law is amended by adding a  new  section  368-a  to
     4  read as follows:
     5    §  368-a. Veterans cemetery funding promotion program. The division is
     6  hereby directed to establish, produce  and  conduct  a  New  York  state
     7  veterans cemetery funding promotion program. The purpose of the New York
     8  state veterans cemetery funding program would be to encourage the giving
     9  of  financial contributions, by individuals, groups and corporations, to
    10  the veterans remembrance and cemetery maintenance  and  operation  fund,
    11  created  pursuant to section ninety-seven-mmmm of the state finance law,
    12  which was established to provide funding for veterans cemeteries  pursu-
    13  ant  to  the  New  York  state  veterans  cemetery program created under
    14  section three hundred sixty-five of this chapter.  In  establishing  the
    15  New York state veterans cemetery funding promotion program, the division
    16  shall  establish,  produce and conduct programs, projects, and materials
    17  designed to encourage the giving of financial contributions, by individ-
    18  uals, groups and corporations, to the veterans remembrance and  cemetery
    19  maintenance and operation fund. The division shall further seek, and may
    20  apply  on behalf of the state of New York, for grants and contributions,
    21  from governments and/or other institutional funding sources, for deposit
    22  in, and use by, the veterans remembrance and  cemetery  maintenance  and
    23  operation fund, for the purpose of constructing, operating and financing
    24  New  York  state  veterans  cemeteries.  Every  year, not later than the
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD07849-01-9
        S. 3780                             2
     1  fifteenth of December, the division shall produce a report of the activ-
     2  ities and operation of the New  York  state  veterans  cemetery  funding
     3  promotion program, and shall deliver a copy of such report to the gover-
     4  nor, the temporary president of the senate, the speaker of the assembly,
     5  the chair of the senate standing committee on veterans, homeland securi-
     6  ty and military affairs and the chair of the assembly standing committee
     7  on veterans' affairs. Such report shall contain information on the oper-
     8  ations  and  progress  of  the  New York state veterans cemetery funding
     9  promotion program, as well as recommendations to the legislature on  the
    10  New  York  state veterans cemetery funding promotion program, and estab-
    11  lishing, maintaining and operating state veterans cemeteries in  accord-
    12  ance with the New York state veterans cemetery program.
    13    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.