New York Assembly Bill A08068 Latest Draft

   
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 8068 2023-2024 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY September 27, 2023 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. JEAN-PIERRE -- read once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Employees AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to establishing a supple- mental burial allowance for certain first responders The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The section heading and subdivision 1 of section 354-b of 2 the executive law, as amended by section 1 of part C of chapter 328 of 3 the laws of 2014, are amended to read as follows: 4 New York state supplemental burial allowance for members of the armed 5 forces of the United States killed in combat or duty subject to hostile 6 fire or imminent danger, as defined in 37 USC § 310 and for certain 7 certified first responders. 1. As used in this section, "parent" means 8 a father, a mother, a father through adoption, a mother through 9 adoption, or an individual who, for a period of not less than one year, 10 at any time before the decedent's entry into active military service or 11 at any time before September eleventh, two thousand one, stood in the 12 relationship of a parent to a decedent who died in combat or duty 13 subject to hostile fire or imminent danger, as defined in 37 USC § 310, 14 or who died from a wound incurred in combat or while serving on duty 15 subject to hostile fire or imminent danger, as defined in 37 USC § 310, 16 or who was a certified first responder who died as a result of a certi- 17 fied World Trade Center medical condition or, if two persons stood in 18 the relationship of a parent for one year or more, the person who bore 19 the expenses of the funeral of the decedent. 20 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately; provided, however, that 21 the amendments to section 354-b of the executive law made by section one 22 of this act shall not affect the repeal of such section and shall be 23 deemed repealed therewith. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD07482-01-3