S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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7961
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
April 16, 2025
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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 veterans' services law, in relation to establishing
a supplemental 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 8 of the
veterans' services law are amended to read as follows:
New York state supplemental burial allowance for members of the
uniformed services 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
CERTIFIED 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.
LBD09143-01-5
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