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NY A06324
Bill
Status
3/4/2025
Primary Sponsor
Carrie Woerner
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AI Summary
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Requires applications for burial expense payments or reimbursements from local public welfare officials to include consent forms allowing direct verification that the deceased had no funds or insurance to cover burial costs
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Sets a minimum 30-day waiting period after death before applications for burial expense payment or reimbursement can be submitted
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Mandates that banking organizations release a decedent's account information to local public welfare officials within 3 business days of receiving a verification request
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Takes effect 90 days after becoming law
Legislative Description
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.
Last Action
referred to social services
1/7/2026