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

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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-Introduced.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1093
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 14, 2019
                                       ___________
        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
        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
    19  veterans employed by such public employer.
    20    §  2.  This  act  shall  take  effect on the same date and in the same
    21  manner as section 1 of chapter 406 of the laws of 2017, takes effect.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01659-01-9
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