Bill Text: NY S01199 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Provides for an increase in the rates of compensation for gold star parents.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 11-2)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2016-05-23 - referred to veterans' affairs [S01199 Detail]
Download: New_York-2015-S01199-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1199--A 2015-2016 Regular Sessions IN SENATE January 9, 2015 ___________ Introduced by Sens. MARCHIONE, DeFRANCISCO, KENNEDY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Veterans, Homeland Security and Military Affairs -- recommitted to the Committee on Veterans, Homeland Security and Military Affairs in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit- tee AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to providing for an increase in the rates of compensation for gold star parents 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 of section 367 of the execu- 2 tive law, as added by chapter 399 of the laws of 2007, is amended to 3 read as follows: 4 (a) A parent, identified in 10 USC 1126 as a gold star parent, of a 5 veteran who heretofore has died or parent of a veteran dying hereafter, 6 shall upon application to the state director, be paid an annual annuity 7 out of the treasury of the state for the sum of five hundred dollars for 8 such term as such parent shall be entitled thereto under the provisions 9 of this article. [In no event shall such annual annuity payment exceed10one thousand dollars per veteran] The amount of any annuity payable 11 under this section shall be the same amount as the annuity payable in 12 the preceding year, increased by a percentage to be determined in 13 accordance with a formula established by the division of veteran's 14 affairs. The formula shall take into account all factors the division of 15 veteran's affairs deems necessary, including, but not limited to factors 16 such as the percentage by which benefit amounts payable under title II 17 of the Social Security Act (42 USC 401 et seq.) are increased effective 18 December first, two thousand sixteen. The term "parent" for the 19 purposes of this section includes mother, father, stepmother, stepfa- 20 ther, mother through adoption and father through adoption. 21 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD02575-04-6
