Increases the state reimbursement to social services districts for expenses incurred on and after October 1, 2010 in the burial of a recipient of public assistance and care from $900 to $1,500.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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5480
2009-2010 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 13, 2009
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Introduced by M. of A. V. LOPEZ, SEMINERIO -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M.
of A. GOTTFRIED, WEISENBERG -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Social Services
AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to reimbursement to
social services districts for expenses for the burial of a recipient
of public assistance and care
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 5 of section 141 of the social services law, as
2 amended by chapter 81 of the laws of 1995, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 5. Expenditures for burial made by social services districts, cities
5 and towns pursuant to the provisions of this chapter shall, if approved
6 by the [department] office of temporary and disability assistance, be
7 subject to reimbursement by the state, in accordance with the regu-
8 lations of the [department] office of temporary and disability assist-
9 ance to the extent of one hundred per centum thereof in the case of
10 needy Native Americans and members of their families residing on a
11 reservation within the state and fifty per centum in all other cases,
12 and such reimbursement shall be claimed and paid in accordance with the
13 procedure prescribed by and pursuant to section one hundred fifty-three
14 of this article. However, only so much of such an expenditure as does
15 not exceed [two hundred fifty dollars for expenditures made prior to
16 October first, nineteen hundred eighty-six, four hundred dollars for
17 expenditures made on and after October first, nineteen hundred eighty-
18 six and prior to April first, nineteen hundred eighty-seven and nine]
19 fifteen hundred dollars for expenditures made on and after [April first,
20 nineteen hundred eighty-seven] October first, two thousand ten shall be
21 subject to reimbursement by the state.
22 § 2. This act shall take effect October 1, 2010.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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