Senate Bill S6661

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Establishes the New York state veterans cemetery act

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Current Bill Status - In Assembly Committee


  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2025-S6661 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Veterans' Affairs
Law Section:
Veterans' Service Law
Laws Affected:
Add §24-a, Veterans' Services L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2011-2012: S2424
2013-2014: S2658
2015-2016: S2941
2017-2018: S3906
2019-2020: S3780
2021-2022: S4735
2023-2024: S6655

2025-S6661 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Establishes the "New York state veterans cemetery act"; directs the division to conduct an investigation and study on the issue of the establishment of a New York state veterans cemetery funding program.

2025-S6661 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S6661 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6661
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              March 19, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by Sens. GRIFFO, LANZA -- read twice and ordered printed, and
   when  printed  to  be committed to the Committee on Veterans, Homeland
   Security and Military Affairs
 
 AN ACT to amend the veterans' services law, in relation  to  the  estab-
   lishment of the New York state veterans cemetery act

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may  be  cited  as
 the "New York state veterans cemetery act".
   §  2.  The  veterans'  services law is amended by adding a new section
 24-a to read as follows:
   § 24-A. VETERANS CEMETERY FUNDING PROMOTION PROGRAM. THE DEPARTMENT IS
 HEREBY DIRECTED TO ESTABLISH, PRODUCE  AND  CONDUCT  A  NEW  YORK  STATE
 VETERANS CEMETERY FUNDING PROMOTION PROGRAM. THE PURPOSE OF THE NEW YORK
 STATE  VETERANS CEMETERY FUNDING PROMOTION PROGRAM WOULD BE TO ENCOURAGE
 THE GIVING OF FINANCIAL CONTRIBUTIONS, BY INDIVIDUALS, GROUPS AND CORPO-
 RATIONS, TO THE VETERANS REMEMBRANCE AND CEMETERY MAINTENANCE AND OPERA-
 TION FUND, CREATED PURSUANT TO SECTION NINETY-SEVEN-MMMM  OF  THE  STATE
 FINANCE LAW, WHICH WAS ESTABLISHED TO PROVIDE FUNDING FOR VETERANS CEME-
 TERIES  PURSUANT TO THE NEW YORK STATE VETERANS CEMETERY PROGRAM CREATED
 UNDER SECTION TWENTY-FOUR OF THIS ARTICLE. IN ESTABLISHING THE NEW  YORK
 STATE  VETERANS CEMETERY FUNDING PROMOTION PROGRAM, THE DEPARTMENT SHALL
 ESTABLISH,  PRODUCE  AND  CONDUCT  PROGRAMS,  PROJECTS,  AND   MATERIALS
 DESIGNED TO ENCOURAGE THE GIVING OF FINANCIAL CONTRIBUTIONS, BY INDIVID-
 UALS,  GROUPS AND CORPORATIONS, TO THE VETERANS REMEMBRANCE AND CEMETERY
 MAINTENANCE AND OPERATION FUND.  THE DEPARTMENT SHALL FURTHER SEEK,  AND
 MAY  APPLY  ON  BEHALF OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, FOR GRANTS AND CONTRIB-
 UTIONS, FROM GOVERNMENTS AND/OR OTHER INSTITUTIONAL FUNDING SOURCES, FOR
 DEPOSIT IN, AND USE BY, THE VETERANS REMEMBRANCE  AND  CEMETERY  MAINTE-
 NANCE AND OPERATION FUND, FOR THE PURPOSE OF CONSTRUCTING, OPERATING AND
 FINANCING NEW YORK STATE VETERANS CEMETERIES. EVERY YEAR, NOT LATER THAN
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD09914-01-5
              

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