Bill Text: NY S01124 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Provides for an increase in the rates of compensation for gold star parents.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 16-3)

Status: (Passed) 2018-11-12 - SIGNED CHAP.356 [S01124 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S01124-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         1124--A
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                     January 6, 2017
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by Sens. MARCHIONE, AKSHAR, AMEDORE, AVELLA, BONACIC, BOYLE,
          CROCI, DeFRANCISCO, GALLIVAN, HANNON, KENNEDY, LARKIN,  ORTT,  RANZEN-
          HOFER,  RITCHIE,  SEWARD  --  read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Veterans, Homeland Securi-
          ty and Military Affairs -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
          reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
        AN ACT to amend the executive law,  in  relation  to  providing  for  an
          increase in the rates of compensation for gold star parents
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 1 of section 367 of the execu-
     2  tive law, as added by chapter 399 of the laws of  2007,  is  amended  to
     3  read as follows:
     4    (a)  A  parent,  identified in 10 USC 1126 as a gold star parent, of a
     5  veteran who heretofore has died or parent of a veteran dying  hereafter,
     6  shall  upon application to the state director, be paid an annual annuity
     7  out of the treasury of the state for the sum of five hundred dollars for
     8  such term as such parent shall be entitled thereto under the  provisions
     9  of  this  article. [In no event shall such annual annuity payment exceed
    10  one thousand dollars per veteran] The  amount  of  any  annuity  payable
    11  under  this  section  shall be the same amount as the annuity payable in
    12  the preceding year, increased  by  a  percentage  to  be  determined  in
    13  accordance  with  a  formula  established  by  the division of veterans'
    14  affairs. The formula shall take into account all factors the division of
    15  veterans' affairs deems necessary, including, but not limited to factors
    16  such as the percentage by which benefit amounts payable under  title  II
    17  of  the Social Security Act (42 USC 401 et seq.) are increased effective
    18  December first, two thousand seventeen.    The  term  "parent"  for  the
    19  purposes  of  this  section includes mother, father, stepmother, stepfa-
    20  ther, mother through adoption and father through adoption.
    21    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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