Senate Bill S5327

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Eliminates the $1,000 limitation on the annual annuity payable to a gold star parent

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Archive: Last 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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2017-S5327 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A7570
Current Committee:
Senate Veterans, Homeland Security And Military Affairs
Law Section:
Executive Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §367, Exec L

2017-S5327 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Eliminates the $1,000 limitation on the annual annuity payable to a gold star parent.

2017-S5327 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2017-S5327 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5327
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              March 21, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  CROCI  --  (at request of the Division of Veterans
   Affairs) -- read twice and ordered printed, and  when  printed  to  be
   committed to the Committee on Veterans, Homeland Security and Military
   Affairs
 
 AN  ACT  to amend the executive law, in relation to the criteria for the
   annuity paid to gold star parents

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 1 of section 367 of the execu-
 tive  law,  as  added  by chapter 399 of the laws of 2007, is amended to
 read as follows:
   (a) A parent, identified in 10 USC 1126 as a gold star  parent,  of  a
 veteran  who heretofore has died or parent of a veteran dying hereafter,
 shall upon application to the state director, be paid an annual  annuity
 out of the treasury of the state for the sum of five hundred dollars for
 such  term as such parent shall be entitled thereto under the provisions
 of this article. [In no event shall such annual annuity  payment  exceed
 one thousand dollars per veteran.] The term "parent" for the purposes of
 this  section  includes  mother,  father, stepmother, stepfather, mother
 through adoption and father through adoption.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD10127-01-7



              

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