STATE OF NEW YORK
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7191
IN SENATE
April 6, 2016
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Introduced by Sen. GALLIVAN -- (at request of the Office of Victim
Services) -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be
committed to the Committee on Crime Victims, Crime and Correction
AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to the eligibility for
reimbursement of burial expenses
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph (d) of subdivision 1 of section 624 of the execu-
2 tive law, as amended by chapter 427 of the laws of 1999, is amended to
3 read as follows:
4 (d) any person or business represented by a person who has paid for or
5 incurred the burial expenses of a victim who died as a direct result of
6 such crime, except such person shall not be eligible to receive an award
7 for other than burial expenses unless otherwise eligible under paragraph
8 (a), (b) or (c) of this subdivision;
9 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall apply to all
10 claims filed on or after it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD14315-01-6
