| Assembly Actions - Lowercase Senate Actions - UPPERCASE |
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| Mar 11, 2020 | referred to veterans' affairs delivered to assembly passed senate |
| Jan 21, 2020 | advanced to third reading |
| Jan 15, 2020 | 2nd report cal. |
| Jan 14, 2020 | 1st report cal.125 |
| Jan 08, 2020 | referred to veterans, homeland security and military affairs returned to senate died in assembly |
| Feb 26, 2019 | referred to veterans' affairs delivered to assembly passed senate |
| Feb 04, 2019 | advanced to third reading |
| Jan 29, 2019 | 2nd report cal. |
| Jan 28, 2019 | 1st report cal.55 |
| Jan 22, 2019 | referred to veterans, homeland security and military affairs |
senate Bill S2145
2019-2020 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
Michael Gianaris
(D, WF) 12th Senate District
Archive: Last Bill Status - Passed Senate
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Co-Sponsors
David Carlucci
(D) 0 Senate District
Simcha Felder
(D) 22nd Senate District
Pamela Helming
(R, C, IP) 54th Senate District
S2145 (ACTIVE) - Details
S2145 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo
BILL NUMBER: S2145 SPONSOR: GIANARIS TITLE OF BILL: An act to amend the general municipal law, in relation to directing counties and the city of New York to request a congression- ally chartered 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 PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA: To ensure that all those who serve our country are given a proper inter- ment SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS: Section 1 amends paragraph (a) of subdivision 1-a of section 148 of the general municipal law to require counties and the city of New York to request a congressionally chartered veterans organization to engage the services of a funeral firm to conduct a funeral and burial.
S2145 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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2145
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
I N S E N A T E
January 22, 2019
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Introduced by Sens. GIANARIS, CARLUCCI -- read twice and ordered print-
ed, and when printed to be committed 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.
LBD01483-01-9
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