Bill Text: NY A01093 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Relates to authorizing additional paid leave for health related services for certain employees not employed by the state who served in a combat theater or combat zone of operations.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 20-3)

Status: (Passed) 2019-11-11 - signed chap.476 [A01093 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A01093-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         1093--B

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 14, 2019
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        Introduced  by  M. of A. PAULIN, ORTIZ, TAYLOR, WILLIAMS, CAHILL, VANEL,
          DICKENS, D'URSO, GOTTFRIED, ENGLEBRIGHT, MIKULIN,  MOSLEY,  SEAWRIGHT,
          RIVERA,  ARROYO,  COOK,  RAIA, BLAKE -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A.
          BARCLAY, SIMON -- read once and referred to the Committee  on  Govern-
          mental  Operations  --  committee  discharged,  bill  amended, ordered
          reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee -- reported and
          referred to the Committee on Ways and Means --  committee  discharged,
          bill  amended,  ordered  reprinted  as amended and recommitted to said
          committee

        AN ACT to amend the military law, in relation to authorizing  additional
          paid leave for health related services for certain employees

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

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 5 of section 242 of the military law is amended
     2  by adding a new paragraph (c) to read as follows:
     3    (c) Public officers or employees,  as  defined  by  paragraph  (a)  of
     4  subdivision  one  of this section, who are not employees of the state of
     5  New York and therefore not entitled to the benefits contained  in  para-
     6  graph  (b)  of  this subdivision, who have served in a combat theater or
     7  combat zone of operations as documented by a copy of his or  her  DD214,
     8  certificate  of release or discharge from active duty, or other applica-
     9  ble department of defense documentation, may be entitled  to  additional
    10  paid leave for health related services related to duty in a combat thea-
    11  ter  or  combat  zone of operations.   The governing body of a municipal
    12  corporation may, in its sole discretion, adopt a resolution or local law
    13  providing for the payment of the salary or other  compensation  of  such
    14  public  officers  or  employees for any and all periods of absence while
    15  utilizing healthcare related services related to duty in a combat  thea-
    16  ter  or  combat  zone of operations, not exceeding five working days, in
    17  any one calendar year. Any such local law  or  resolution  adopted  must
    18  apply  to  both  combat  theater  veterans and combat zone of operations

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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        A. 1093--B                          2

     1  veterans employed by such public employer.  Nothing  in  this  paragraph
     2  shall  be  construed  to diminish the rights, privileges, or remedies of
     3  any employee under any collective bargaining agreement.
     4    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
     5  it shall have become a law.