S03906 Summary:

BILL NOS03906
 
SAME ASSAME AS A03364
 
SPONSORGRIFFO
 
COSPNSRAKSHAR, BONACIC, CROCI, LANZA, LARKIN, RITCHIE
 
MLTSPNSR
 
Add §368-a, Exec L
 
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.
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S03906 Actions:

BILL NOS03906
 
01/30/2017REFERRED TO VETERANS, HOMELAND SECURITY AND MILITARY AFFAIRS
03/27/2017REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE
05/23/20171ST REPORT CAL.1265
05/24/20172ND REPORT CAL.
06/05/2017ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
06/12/2017PASSED SENATE
06/12/2017DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
06/12/2017referred to veterans' affairs
01/03/2018died in assembly
01/03/2018returned to senate
01/03/2018REFERRED TO VETERANS, HOMELAND SECURITY AND MILITARY AFFAIRS
04/23/2018REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE
05/15/2018COMMITTEE DISCHARGED AND COMMITTED TO RULES
05/15/2018ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.1178
05/15/2018PASSED SENATE
05/15/2018DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
05/15/2018referred to veterans' affairs
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S03906 Committee Votes:

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S03906 Floor Votes:

There are no votes for this bill in this legislative session.
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S03906 Text:



 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                          3906
 
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                    IN SENATE
 
                                    January 30, 2017
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by Sens. GRIFFO, AKSHAR, CROCI, LANZA, RITCHIE -- 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 executive law, in relation to the  establishment  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:
 
     1    Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may  be  cited  as
     2  the "New York state veterans cemetery act".
     3    §  2.  The  executive  law is amended by adding a new section 368-a to
     4  read as follows:
     5    § 368-a. Veterans cemetery funding promotion program. The division  is
     6  hereby  directed  to  establish,  produce  and  conduct a New York state
     7  veterans cemetery funding promotion program. The purpose of the New York
     8  state veterans cemetery funding program would be to encourage the giving
     9  of financial contributions, by individuals, groups and corporations,  to
    10  the  veterans  remembrance  and cemetery maintenance and operation fund,
    11  created pursuant to section ninety-seven-mmmm of the state finance  law,
    12  which  was established to provide funding for veterans cemeteries pursu-
    13  ant to the New  York  state  veterans  cemetery  program  created  under
    14  section  three  hundred  sixty-five of this chapter. In establishing the
    15  New York state veterans cemetery funding promotion program, the division
    16  shall establish, produce and conduct programs, projects,  and  materials
    17  designed to encourage the giving of financial contributions, by individ-
    18  uals,  groups and corporations, to the veterans remembrance and cemetery
    19  maintenance and operation fund. The division shall further seek, and may
    20  apply on behalf of the state of New York, for grants and  contributions,
    21  from governments and/or other institutional funding sources, for deposit
    22  in,  and  use  by, the veterans remembrance and cemetery maintenance and
    23  operation fund, for the purpose of constructing, operating and financing
    24  New York state veterans cemeteries.  Every  year,  not  later  than  the
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05241-01-7

        S. 3906                             2
 
     1  fifteenth of December, the division shall produce a report of the activ-
     2  ities  and  operation  of  the  New York state veterans cemetery funding
     3  promotion program, and shall deliver a copy of such report to the gover-
     4  nor, the temporary president of the senate, the speaker of the assembly,
     5  the chair of the senate standing committee on veterans, homeland securi-
     6  ty and military affairs and the chair of the assembly standing committee
     7  on veterans' affairs. Such report shall contain information on the oper-
     8  ations  and  progress  of  the  New York state veterans cemetery funding
     9  promotion program, as well as recommendations to the legislature on  the
    10  New  York  state veterans cemetery funding promotion program, and estab-
    11  lishing, maintaining and operating state veterans cemeteries in  accord-
    12  ance with the New York state veterans cemetery program.
    13    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
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