STATE OF NEW YORK
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2866--B
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 23, 2017
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Introduced by M. of A. McDONALD, MOSLEY, CRESPO, RAIA, CROUCH, STEC,
STECK, PERRY, LAWRENCE, GOTTFRIED, PAULIN, GUNTHER, CUSICK, THIELE,
SKOUFIS, JENNE, RA, BUTLER, DiPIETRO, HAWLEY, ORTIZ, SANTABARBARA,
ABBATE, BLANKENBUSH, MORINELLO, BLAKE, B. MILLER -- Multi-Sponsored by
-- M. of A. BARCLAY, BENEDETTO, BRAUNSTEIN, GIGLIO, HOOPER, HYNDMAN,
LUPARDO, MAGEE, McDONOUGH, RAMOS -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Veterans' Affairs -- recommitted to the Committee on
Veterans' Affairs in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 --
committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and
recommitted to said committee -- recommitted to the Committee on
Veterans' Affairs in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 --
committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and
recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to providing for an
increase in the rates of annuities payable to veterans and surviving
spouses of veterans
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 362 of the executive law, as added
2 by chapter 251 of the laws of 2004, is amended to read as follows:
3 3. Annual adjustment. Commencing in the year two thousand [five] nine-
4 teen the amount of any annuity payable under subdivision one or two of
5 this section shall be one thousand five hundred dollars, and for each
6 year thereafter, the amount of any annuity payable under this section
7 shall be the same amount as the annuity payable in the preceding year
8 plus a percentage adjustment equal to the annual percentage increase, if
9 any, for compensation and pension benefits administered by the United
10 States Department of Veterans' Affairs in the previous year. Such
11 percentage increase shall be rounded up to the next highest one-tenth of
12 one percent and shall not be less than one percent nor more than four
13 percent. Commencing in the year two thousand five, the director of
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 veterans' affairs, not later than February first of each year, shall
2 publish by any reasonable means, including but not limited to posting on
3 the division's website, the amount of the annuity as adjusted payable
4 under this section.
5 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
