Assembly Bill A10402

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Provides for an annual adjustment for reimbursements for certain veterans funerals

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  • 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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2021-A10402 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S8502
Current Committee:
Assembly Veterans' Affairs
Law Section:
General Municipal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §148, Gen Muni L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
A4613, S2413

2021-A10402 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides for an annual adjustment for reimbursements for certain veterans funerals.

2021-A10402 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                   10402
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               May 13, 2022
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Barrett) --
   read once and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs
 
 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:

   Section 1. Paragraph (d) of subdivision 1-a  of  section  148  of  the
 general  municipal law, as amended by chapter 29 of the laws of 2016, is
 amended to read as follows:
   (d) The state shall reimburse such congressionally chartered veterans'
 organization for such funeral and burial service expenses for  veterans,
 except  those  expenses  previously  reimbursed  pursuant to section one
 hundred forty-one of the social services law or any other law  or  those
 expenses  reimbursable  or  payable  by the federal government; provided
 however, that the total reimbursement pursuant to this subdivision shall
 not exceed two thousand dollars per burial PLUS AN ANNUAL ADJUSTMENT FOR
 ANY INCREASE IN THE COSTS OF SUCH FUNERALS AS DETERMINED BY THE NEW YORK
 STATE FUNERAL DIRECTOR ASSOCIATION.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 

 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD14888-01-2

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