Senate Bill S5855

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Establishes a supplemental burial allowance for certain first responders

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Current 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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2025-S5855 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Veterans, Homeland Security And Military Affairs
Law Section:
Veterans' Service Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §8, Veterans' Services L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: S5841
2021-2022: S791
2023-2024: S3308

2025-S5855 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Establishes a supplemental burial allowance for certain first responders.

2025-S5855 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S5855 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5855
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               March 3, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. SKOUFIS -- 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 veterans' services law, in relation to  establishing
   a supplemental burial allowance for certain first responders

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. The section heading and subdivision 1 of section 8  of  the
 veterans' services law are amended to read as follows:
   New  York  state  supplemental  burial  allowance  for  members of the
 uniformed services of the United States killed in combat or duty subject
 to hostile fire or imminent danger, as defined in 37 USC § 310  AND  FOR
 CERTAIN  CERTIFIED  FIRST  RESPONDERS.    1.  As  used  in this section,
 "parent" means a father, a mother, a father through adoption,  a  mother
 through  adoption,  or  an individual who, for a period of not less than
 one year, at any time before the decedent's entry into  active  military
 service  OR  AT  ANY  TIME  BEFORE SEPTEMBER ELEVENTH, TWO THOUSAND ONE,
 stood in the relationship of a parent to a decedent who died  in  combat
 or duty subject to hostile fire or imminent danger, as defined in 37 USC
 §  310,  or who died from a wound incurred in combat or while serving on
 duty subject to hostile fire or imminent danger, as defined in 37 USC  §
 310,  OR  WHO  WAS A CERTIFIED FIRST RESPONDER WHO DIED AS A RESULT OF A
 CERTIFIED WORLD TRADE CENTER MEDICAL CONDITION or, if two persons  stood
 in  the  relationship  of  a parent for one year or more, the person who
 bore the expenses of the funeral of the decedent.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD09143-01-5

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