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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         5752--A
 
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
 
                    IN SENATE
 
                                      June 2, 2015
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by  Sen.  CROCI  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Veterans, Homeland Securi-
          ty and Military Affairs -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
          reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
 
        AN ACT to amend the general municipal law,  in  relation  to  burial  of
          indigent veterans of the armed forces of the United States
 
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section 1. Section 148 of the general  municipal  law  is  amended  by
     2  adding a new subdivision 1-a to read as follows:
     3    1-a.  Notwithstanding any other provision of this section, in the case
     4  of an indigent veteran who died in a county or  the  city  of  New  York
     5  leaving  no  funds  or  insurance  sufficient  to pay funeral and burial
     6  expenses of such veteran and such veteran has no next of kin  or  person
     7  of  record previously designated to control his or her final disposition
     8  pursuant to section four thousand two hundred one of the  public  health
     9  law,  such  county  or  the city of New York may request a congressional
    10  chartered veterans' organization within the county or the  city  of  New
    11  York  where  the  decedent  resided  at the time of death, to engage the
    12  services of a funeral firm to conduct the funeral and  burial  services.
    13  Such  organization  shall incur the costs associated with such services,
    14  which shall include but not be limited to, the purchase  of  a  suitable
    15  container  for burial, the funeral director's prices for merchandise and
    16  services furnished, cost of a grave site and a military funeral  service
    17  at  the  cemetery  to which such body shall be interred. The state shall
    18  reimburse such congressional chartered  veteran  organization  for  such
    19  funeral  and burial service expenses for indigent veterans, except those
    20  expenses previously reimbursed pursuant to section one hundred forty-one
    21  of the social services law or any other law or those expenses reimbursa-
    22  ble or payable by the federal government;  provided  however,  that  the
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  total  reimbursement  pursuant  to this subdivision shall not exceed two
     2  thousand dollars per burial.
     3    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
     4  have become a law.