Bill Text: NY A04298 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Directs counties and the city of New York to contact a veterans' organization to provide for the disposition of the unclaimed remains of a deceased veteran when such veteran has no next of kin to other person designated to provide for the disposition of his or her remains.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-06-13 - print number 4298a [A04298 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A04298-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         4298--A
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 2, 2017
                                       ___________
        Introduced by M. of A. SIMOTAS, MONTESANO, COLTON, M. G. MILLER, HOOPER,
          JAFFEE,  PERRY -- 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  general municipal law, in relation to directing
          counties and the city of New York to request a  congressionally  char-
          tered  veterans' organization to arrange for the funeral and burial of
          a deceased veteran who has no next of kin or other person to make such
          arrangements
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Paragraph  (a)  of  subdivision 1-a of section 148 of the
     2  general municipal law, as amended by chapter 29 of the laws of 2016,  is
     3  amended to read as follows:
     4    (a)  Notwithstanding  any other provision of this section, in the case
     5  of a veteran, as defined in  section  forty-two  hundred  three  of  the
     6  public  health law, who died in a county or the city of New York leaving
     7  no funds or insurance sufficient to pay funeral and burial  expenses  of
     8  such  veteran  and  such  veteran has no next of kin or person of record
     9  previously designated to control his or her final  disposition  pursuant
    10  to  section four thousand two hundred one of the public health law, such
    11  county or the city of New York [may]  shall  request  a  congressionally
    12  chartered  veterans'  organization  within the county or the city of New
    13  York where the decedent resided at the time  of  death,  to  engage  the
    14  services of a funeral firm to conduct the funeral and burial services.
    15    §  2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed-
    16  ing the date on which it shall have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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