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7 Co-sponsors
History
- Enacting clause stricken
- Print number 10247a
- Amend and recommit to veterans' affairs
- Referred to veterans' affairs
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BILL NUMBER:A10247A
Title of bill
An act to amend the public health law, in relation to establishing the "disposition of veterans' cremated remains act"
Purpose or general idea of bill
To amend the public health law, in relation to establishing the "disposition of veterans' cremated remains act"
Summary of provisions
This bill amends the public health law to ensure that a funeral director or crematory authority must make a reasonable effort to determine whether a deceased person, whose human remains have been submitted to a funeral establishment for final disposition by cremation, is one of the following: (a) a veteran, (b) the spouse of a veteran or (c) the dependent child of a veteran. The reasonable effort required by the crematory authority or funeral director is satisfied by a initiating a search on their own behalf to contact one of the numerous state and federal organizations whose responsibility it is to locate and identify the remains of veterans. Such organizations include the Missing In America Project and their New York affiliate, the New York State Patriot Guard/Veterans Recovery Program, as well as the Department of Veteran Affairs. If it is determined that the deceased is a veteran, spouse of a veteran or dependent child of a veteran, the funeral direc- tor or crematory authority must immediately notify the authorizing agent and advise the authorizing agent that the deceased person may be eligi- ble to be interred at an appropriate veterans' cemetery. If the deceased is not claimed by an authorizing agent, then the funeral director or crematory authority must hold any cremated remains for at least one hundred and eighty days.
Justification
The remains of veterans that have been cremated and left in a funeral director's or crematory authority's possession should be properly accounted for and interred at an appropriate veteran's ceme- tery. These remains should not be discarded because they were not claimed. Instead, the remains of veterans should be respected for their enduring service to our country and our freedoms and therefore, reason- able efforts must be made by the funeral director or crematory authority to ensure these remains are claimed and accounted for and properly interred to an appropriate veterans' cemetery.
Prior legislative history
New Bill
Fiscal implications
To be determined
Effective date
Immediately.
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