Establishes the New York state veterans cemetery program; directs the division to conduct an investigation and study on the issue of the establishment of a New York state veterans cemetery program.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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6860--A
2011-2012 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
April 5, 2011
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Introduced by M. of A. GALEF, SCHROEDER, MONTESANO, CALHOUN, TITONE --
read once and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs --
committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and
recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to the study of an estab-
lishment of the New York state veterans cemetery program
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The executive law is amended by adding a new section 192 to
2 read as follows:
3 § 192. Veterans cemetery program. The division of military and naval
4 affairs is hereby directed to conduct an investigation and study on the
5 issue of the establishment of a New York state veterans cemetery program
6 which will be a beneficial and acceptable solution for serving the
7 veterans of the state. The division shall report to the governor and the
8 legislature on the findings of such report and recommendations regarding
9 the possible establishment of a state cemetery. Such investigation and
10 study shall be completed on or before December thirty-first, two thou-
11 sand twelve. Within ninety days of the completion of such investigation
12 and study, the division shall complete and deliver, to the governor, to
13 the chair of the senate committee on veterans, homeland security and
14 military affairs and the chair of the assembly committee on veterans'
15 affairs, a report on such investigation and study, containing recommen-
16 dations to the legislature on the establishment of a New York state
17 veterans cemetery program. Such recommendations shall include what meas-
18 ures need to be taken by this state to establish such a program, what
19 laws should be amended or added to establish such a program, and what
20 fiscal resources would need to be appropriated and expended, if any, to
21 establish such a program.
22 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
23 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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