Senate Bill S2033

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to a state veterans' cemetery

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Veterans, Homeland Security And Military Affairs Committee

  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2019-S2033 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A887
Current Committee:
Senate Veterans, Homeland Security And Military Affairs
Law Section:
Executive Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §365, Exec L
Versions Introduced in 2017-2018 Legislative Session:
S9178, A11387

2019-S2033 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to a state veterans' cemetery; removes certain requirements for the establishment of such cemetery.

2019-S2033 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2019-S2033 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   2033
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 18, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  LITTLE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Veterans, Homeland Securi-
   ty and Military Affairs
 
 AN ACT to amend the executive law, in  relation  to  a  state  veterans'
   cemetery
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 2 of section 365 of the execu-
 tive law, as added by section 5 of part W of chapter 57 of the  laws  of
 2013, is amended to read as follows:
   (b) [Prior to the commencement of the investigation and study pursuant
 to  paragraph (a) of this subdivision, the] THE director of the division
 of veterans' affairs, the director of the division of  the  budget,  the
 director  of  the  department of state's division of cemeteries, and the
 office of the state comptroller must certify to the governor, the tempo-
 rary president of the senate, the speaker of the assembly, the chair  of
 the  senate  finance  committee  and  the chair of the assembly ways and
 means committee that the veterans remembrance and  cemetery  maintenance
 and operation fund, created pursuant to section ninety-seven-mmmm of the
 state  finance  law,  contains  moneys  sufficient,  adjusted to reflect
 projected future inflation, to fund the operation, maintenance  and  the
 provision  of  perpetual care of a state veterans' cemetery for a period
 of not less than fifteen years, provided  that  such  amount  shall  not
 include  any amount that shall be reimbursed or contributed to the ceme-
 tery from the government of the United States or any amount  that  would
 be  recoverable  by  the  cemetery  pursuant  to a charge of fee for the
 provision of a grave site for a non-veteran spouse or family member.  In
 making  such  a certification, the director of the division of veterans'
 affairs, the director of the division of the budget, the director of the
 department of state's division of cemeteries,  and  the  office  of  the

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD03314-01-9

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