Bill Text: NY A08449 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires that applications for payment of burial expenses by a local public welfare official or for reimbursement by a local public welfare official for burial expenses paid by relatives or friends of the deceased shall include all necessary consent forms to permit the public welfare official to directly verify the deceased left no funds or insurance sufficient to pay burial expenses and shall be due no earlier than thirty days following the death of the recipient of public assistance or care.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to social services [A08449 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A08449-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8449

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    December 29, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. WOERNER -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Social Services

        AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to payment of buri-
          al expenses by local public welfare officials

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1. Subdivision 3 of section 141 of the social services law is
     2  amended by adding a new paragraph (c) to read as follows:
     3    (c) (1) Applications for payment of burial expenses by a local  public
     4  welfare official or for reimbursement by a local public welfare official
     5  for  burial  expenses paid by relatives or friends of the deceased shall
     6  include all necessary consent forms to permit the public  welfare  offi-
     7  cial  to  directly verify the deceased left no funds or insurance suffi-
     8  cient to pay burial expenses. Applications for payment or  reimbursement
     9  pursuant  to  the provisions of this subdivision shall be due no earlier
    10  than thirty days following the death of the recipient of public  assist-
    11  ance or care.
    12    (2)  Upon  request of a local public welfare official pursuant to this
    13  subdivision, any banking organization as defined in  subdivision  eleven
    14  of  section  two  of  the banking law shall release a decedent's account
    15  information to such official within three  business  days  of  receiving
    16  such request.
    17    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
    18  have become a law.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13474-02-3