STATE OF NEW YORK
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1124--B
Cal. No. 1173
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 6, 2017
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Introduced by Sens. MARCHIONE, AKSHAR, AMEDORE, AVELLA, BONACIC, BOYLE,
CARLUCCI, CROCI, DeFRANCISCO, GALLIVAN, HANNON, HELMING, KENNEDY,
LARKIN, ORTT, RANZENHOFER, RITCHIE, SEWARD -- read twice and ordered
printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Veter-
ans, Homeland Security and Military Affairs -- committee discharged,
bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said
committee -- recommitted to the Committee on Veterans, Homeland Secu-
rity and Military Affairs in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 --
reported favorably from said committee and committed to the Committee
on Finance -- committee discharged and said bill committed to the
Committee on Rules -- reported favorably from said committee, ordered
to a third reading, passed by Senate and delivered to the Assembly,
recalled, vote reconsidered, restored to third reading, amended and
ordered reprinted, retaining its place in the order of third reading
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.] Commencing in the year two thousand
11 nineteen, the amount of any annuity payable under this section shall be
12 the same amount as the annuity payable in the preceding year plus a
13 percentage adjustment equal to the annual percentage increase, if any,
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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1 for compensation and pension benefits administered by the United States
2 department of veterans' affairs in the previous year. Such percentage
3 increase shall be rounded up to the next highest one-tenth of one
4 percent and shall not be less than one percent nor more than four
5 percent. The director of veterans' affairs, not later than February
6 first of each year, shall publish by any reasonable means, including
7 but not limited to posting on the division's website, the amount of the
8 annuity as adjusted payable under this section. The term "parent" for
9 the purposes of this section includes mother, father, stepmother, step-
10 father, mother through adoption and father through adoption.
11 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.