Assembly Bill A4381

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Increases the amount paid by social services districts for burial expenses

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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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2009-A4381 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S1651
Current Committee:
Assembly Social Services
Law Section:
Social Services Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง141, Soc Serv L

2009-A4381 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Increases the amount local social services districts will pay for burial expenses for indigent persons to the amount actually incurred, but not to exceed the amount established by the office of temporary and disability assistance.

2009-A4381 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  4381

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            February 3, 2009
                               ___________

Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  V. LOPEZ  --  Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A.
  BROOK-KRASNY, CLARK, GLICK, GREENE, HOOPER, MAYERSOHN -- read once and
  referred to the Committee on Social Services

AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to  burial  of  the
  dead

  THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 1 of section 141 of the social
services law, as amended by chapter 772 of the laws of 1958, is  amended
to read as follows:
  (b)  Except as otherwise provided the [public welfare] SOCIAL SERVICES
district,  town  or  city  which  was or would have been responsible for
furnishing public assistance or care to the  person  while  alive  shall
provide  for  the care, removal and burial of the body of a recipient of
public assistance or care who shall die, or of a person  found  dead  in
the  [public  welfare]  SOCIAL  SERVICES district.   NOTWITHSTANDING ANY
INCONSISTENT PROVISION OF LAW, THE LOCAL SOCIAL SERVICES DISTRICT  SHALL
MAKE PAYMENT TO PROVIDE FOR THE CARE, REMOVAL, AND BURIAL OF A RECIPIENT
OF PUBLIC ASSISTANCE AND CARE WHO DIES, OR OF A PERSON FOUND DEAD IN THE
SOCIAL SERVICES DISTRICT, IN AN AMOUNT WHICH SHALL EQUAL THE ACTUAL COST
OF  SUCH  CARE,  REMOVAL,  AND  BURIAL, PROVIDED HOWEVER, THAT THE LOCAL
SOCIAL SERVICES DISTRICT SHALL  NOT  BE  REQUIRED  TO  MAKE  PAYMENT  IN
AMOUNTS  APPROVED  BY  THE OFFICE OF TEMPORARY AND DISABILITY ASSISTANCE
WHICH EXCEED THE AMOUNT SET FORTH IN SUBDIVISION FIVE OF THIS SECTION.
  S 2. Subdivision 1 of section  141  of  the  social  services  law  is
amended by adding a new paragraph (c) to read as follows:
  (C)  IN  NO CASE SHALL SUCH SOCIAL SERVICES DISTRICT PAY MORE THAN THE
BALANCE REMAINING TO BE PAID AFTER THE TOTAL OF THE AMOUNTS PAID  OR  TO
BE  PAID  BY ALL OTHER SOURCES, INCLUDING PAYMENTS MADE OR TO BE MADE BY
SUCH LEGALLY RESPONSIBLE RELATIVES OF THE DECEASED AS ARE IN  THE  JUDG-

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD05022-01-9

              

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