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                                   1017
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 14, 2019
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 Introduced by M. of A. SIMOTAS, MONTESANO, COLTON, M. G. MILLER, JAFFEE,
   PERRY -- read once and referred to the Committee on Veterans, Homeland
   Security and Military Affairs
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the  general municipal law, in relation to directing
   counties and the city of New York to request a  congressionally  char-
   tered  veterans' organization to arrange for the funeral and burial of
   a deceased veteran who has no next of kin or other person to make such
   arrangements
 
   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-a of section 148 of the
 general municipal law, as amended by chapter 29 of the laws of 2016,  is
 amended to read as follows:
   (a)  Notwithstanding  any other provision of this section, in the case
 of a veteran, as defined in  section  forty-two  hundred  three  of  the
 public  health law, who died in a county or the city of New York leaving
 no funds or insurance sufficient to pay funeral and burial  expenses  of
 such  veteran  and  such  veteran has no next of kin or person of record
 previously designated to control his or her final  disposition  pursuant
 to  section four thousand two hundred one of the public health law, such
 county or the city of New York [may]  SHALL  request  a  congressionally
 chartered  veterans'  organization  within the county or the city of New
 York where the decedent resided at the time  of  death,  to  engage  the
 services of a funeral firm to conduct the funeral and burial services.
   §  2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed-
 ing the date on which it shall have become a law.
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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