New York S 890: Directs the New York state thruway authority to establish an electronic toll collection device for trucks used by farms, which grants a 10% discount for use of the thruway

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S00890 Summary:

BILL NOS00890 

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SAME ASNo Same As

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SPONSORSEPULVEDA

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COSPNSRMYRIE, RIVERA

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §141, Soc Serv L

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Expands the maximum benefit and eligibility requirements for financial assistance for burial arrangements; provides for expedited assistance during a state disaster emergency.

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01/08/2025REFERRED TO SOCIAL SERVICES

01/07/2026REFERRED TO SOCIAL SERVICES

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 890

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 (Prefiled)

 January 8, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sen. SEPULVEDA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
 printed to be committed to the Committee on Social Services

 AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to assistance for
 burial arrangements

 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
 bly, do enact as follows:

 1 Section 1. Subdivisions 3 and 4 of section 141 of the social services
 2 law, subdivision 3 as added by chapter 772 of the laws of 1958, subpara-
 3 graphs 1 and 2 of paragraph (a) of subdivision 3 as amended by chapter
 4 110 of the laws of 1971, paragraph (b) of subdivision 3 as amended by
 5 chapter 342 of the laws of 1965, subdivision 4 as added by chapter 1080
 6 of the laws of 1974, are amended and a new subdivision 7 is added to
 7 read as follows:
 8 3. (a) When burial arrangements for a recipient of public assistance
 9 or care are made by relatives or friends of the deceased and the expense
 10 of such burial does not exceed the amount fixed by the appropriate
 11 public welfare official or the local appropriating body for similar
 12 burials in similar circumstances, such public welfare official may:
 13 (1) if such relatives or friends were required to pay the expense of
 14 such burial in order to arrange the same, wholly or partly reimburse
 15 them, from assets transferred or assigned to such social services offi-
 16 cial by or on behalf of the deceased recipient; but [he] such public
 17 welfare official shall not reimburse a legally responsible relative of
 18 the deceased for any part of the amount paid by [him] such relative
 19 which in the judgment of such social services official such relative is
 20 able to bear; nor shall such official expend from such assets for such
 21 purpose more than is permitted by or pursuant to this section, other
 22 provisions of this chapter and regulations of the department. The
 23 reimbursement benefit pursuant to this subparagraph shall not be less
 24 than three thousand dollars or exceed four thousand dollars.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD02277-01-5

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 1 (2) pay part of the expense of such burial, if, and to the extent and
 2 under the circumstances, permitted by [his] such public welfare offi-
 3 cial's local policy, which shall not be inconsistent with this chapter,
 4 and the regulations of the department; but in no case shall such social
 5 services official pay more than the balance remaining to be paid after
 6 the total of the amounts paid or to be paid by all other sources,
 7 including payments made or to be made by such legally responsible rela-
 8 tives of the deceased as are in the judgment of such official able to
 9 bear the same, is credited to and deducted from such expense.
 10 (b) In no case shall a public welfare official expend, pursuant to the
 11 provisions of this section or any other provision of this chapter, for
 12 the burial of a recipient of public assistance or care, from assets
 13 transferred or assigned to [him] such public welfare official by or on
 14 behalf of such recipient, an amount which shall be less than three thou-
 15 sand dollars or in excess of [five hundred] four thousand dollars.
 16 4. For purposes of this section, the term "recipient of public assist-
 17 ance and care" shall include persons [receiving] eligible for federal
 18 supplemental security income benefits pursuant to title sixteen of the
 19 federal social security act [and/or