S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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7036
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
April 21, 2021
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Introduced by M. of A. GRIFFIN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Governmental Employees
AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to establishing a supple-
mental burial allowance for certain first responders
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. The section heading and subdivision 1 of section 354-b of
the executive law, as amended by section 1 of part C of chapter 328 of
the laws of 2014, are amended to read as follows:
New York state supplemental burial allowance for members of the armed
forces of the United States killed in combat or duty subject to hostile
fire or imminent danger, as defined in 37 USC § 310 AND FOR CERTAIN
CERTIFIED FIRST RESPONDERS. 1. As used in this section, "parent" means
a father, a mother, a father through adoption, a mother through
adoption, or an individual who, for a period of not less than one year,
at any time before the decedent's entry into active military service OR
AT ANY TIME BEFORE SEPTEMBER ELEVENTH, TWO THOUSAND ONE, stood in the
relationship of a parent to a decedent who died in combat or duty
subject to hostile fire or imminent danger, as defined in 37 USC § 310,
or who died from a wound incurred in combat or while serving on duty
subject to hostile fire or imminent danger, as defined in 37 USC § 310,
OR WHO WAS A CERTIFIED FIRST RESPONDER WHO DIED AS A RESULT OF A CERTI-
FIED WORLD TRADE CENTER MEDICAL CONDITION or, if two persons stood in
the relationship of a parent for one year or more, the person who bore
the expenses of the funeral of the decedent.
§ 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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