S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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I N A S S E M B L Y
May 13, 2022
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Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Barrett) --
read once and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs
AN ACT to amend the general municipal law, in relation to providing for
an annual adjustment for reimbursements for certain veterans funerals
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Paragraph (d) 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:
(d) The state shall reimburse such congressionally chartered veterans'
organization for such funeral and burial service expenses for veterans,
except those expenses previously reimbursed pursuant to section one
hundred forty-one of the social services law or any other law or those
expenses reimbursable or payable by the federal government; provided
however, that the total reimbursement pursuant to this subdivision shall
not exceed two thousand dollars per burial PLUS AN ANNUAL ADJUSTMENT FOR
ANY INCREASE IN THE COSTS OF SUCH FUNERALS AS DETERMINED BY THE NEW YORK
STATE FUNERAL DIRECTOR ASSOCIATION.
§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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