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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
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 ________________________________________________________________________ 2145 2019-2020 Regular Sessions I N S E N A T E January 22, 2019 ___________ 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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