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.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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3780
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 14, 2019
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Introduced by Sens. GRIFFO, AKSHAR, 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.
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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.
