New York A 6324: Relates to payment of burial expenses by local public welfare officials

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A06324 Summary:

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Amd §141, Soc Serv L

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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.

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03/04/2025referred to social services

01/07/2026referred to social services

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 6324

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 March 4, 2025
 ___________

 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.
 LBD10265-01-5

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