Bill Text: NY S02413 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Provides for an annual adjustment for reimbursements for certain veterans funerals.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Engrossed) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO VETERANS, HOMELAND SECURITY AND MILITARY AFFAIRS [S02413 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S02413-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         2413--B

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 20, 2023
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  BAILEY -- 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  --  committee
          discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
          to said committee

        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:

     1    Section  1.  Paragraph  (d)  of  subdivision 1-a of section 148 of the
     2  general municipal law, as amended by chapter 29 of the laws of 2016,  is
     3  amended to read as follows:
     4    (d) The state shall reimburse such congressionally chartered veterans'
     5  organization  for such funeral and burial service expenses for veterans,
     6  except those expenses previously  reimbursed  pursuant  to  section  one
     7  hundred  forty-one  of the social services law or any other law or those
     8  expenses reimbursable or payable by  the  federal  government;  provided
     9  however, that the total reimbursement pursuant to this subdivision shall
    10  not  exceed  two  thousand dollars per burial. With respect to any state
    11  fiscal year, the commissioner of  veterans'  services  shall  provide  a
    12  percentage  increase in the maximum amount of funeral and burial service
    13  expenses payable under this paragraph, equal to the percentage by  which
    14  (i) the consumer price index (all items, United States city average) for
    15  the  twelve-month  period ending on the March thirty-first preceding the
    16  beginning of the state fiscal year  for  which  the  increase  is  made,
    17  exceeds  (ii)  the  consumer  price  index  for  the twelve-month period
    18  preceding the twelve-month period described in subparagraph (i) of  this
    19  paragraph.  Such  percentage  increase  shall  be rounded up to the next
    20  highest one-tenth of one percent and shall not be less than one  percent
    21  nor  more than four percent. Commencing in the year two thousand twenty-

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01440-07-3
        S. 2413--B                          2

     1  five, the commissioner of veterans' services, not  later  than  February
     2  first of each year, shall publish the amount of the total reimbursement,
     3  as adjusted, payable under this section.
     4    § 2. This act shall take effect April 1, 2024.