A 7961: Establishes a supplemental burial allowance for certain first responders.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 7961 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY April 16, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. GRIFFIN -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee on Governmental Employees AN ACT to amend the veterans' services law, in relation to establishing a supplemental 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 8 of the 2 veterans' services law are amended to read as follows: 3 New York state supplemental burial allowance for members of the 4 uniformed services of the United States killed in combat or duty subject 5 to hostile fire or imminent danger, as defined in 37 USC § 310 and for 6 certain certified first responders. 1. As used in this section, 7 "parent" means a father, a mother, a father through adoption, a mother 8 through adoption, or an individual who, for a period of not less than 9 one year, at any time before the decedent's entry into active military 10 service or at any time before September eleventh, two thousand one, 11 stood in the relationship of a parent to a decedent who died in combat 12 or duty subject to hostile fire or imminent danger, as defined in 37 USC 13 § 310, or who died from a wound incurred in combat or while serving on 14 duty subject to hostile fire or imminent danger, as defined in 37 USC § 15 310, or who was a certified first responder who died as a result of a 16 certified World Trade Center medical condition or, if two persons stood 17 in the relationship of a parent for one year or more, the person who 18 bore the expenses of the funeral of the decedent. 19 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD09143-01-5