Bill Text: NY A02827 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Authorizes pay for military leave for public employees who are absent due to military duty; allows public employees to collect paid salary and compensation for thirty days or twenty-two working days, whichever is greater, in addition to collecting the difference between salary and compensation for another three hundred thirty-five days.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 5-2)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-01-18 - referred to governmental employees [A02827 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-A02827-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         2827
                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   January 18, 2013
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       Introduced  by  M. of A. REILICH, KOLB -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A.
         BUTLER, FINCH, McDONOUGH, THIELE, WEISENBERG -- read once and referred
         to the Committee on Governmental Employees
       AN ACT to amend the military law, in relation to authorizing  additional
         paid leave for public employees who are absent on military duty
         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,  as
    2  amended  by  chapter  161  of  the  laws  of 1984, is amended to read as
    3  follows:
    4    5. Pay for military duty.  (A) Every public officer or employee  shall
    5  be  paid  his  salary  or  other  compensation as such public officer or
    6  employee for any and  all  periods  of  absence  while  engaged  in  the
    7  performance  of  ordered military duty, and while going to and returning
    8  from such duty, not exceeding a total of thirty days or twenty-two work-
    9  ing days, whichever is greater, in any one calendar year and not exceed-
   10  ing thirty days or twenty-two working days, whichever is greater, in any
   11  one continuous period of such absence.
   12    (B) EVERY PUBLIC OFFICER OR EMPLOYEE  SHALL  BE  PAID  THE  DIFFERENCE
   13  BETWEEN  HIS  SALARY  AND  OTHER  COMPENSATION AS SUCH PUBLIC OFFICER OR
   14  EMPLOYEE FOR ANY AND  ALL  PERIODS  OF  ABSENCE  WHILE  ENGAGED  IN  THE
   15  PERFORMANCE  OF  ORDERED MILITARY DUTY, AND WHILE GOING TO AND RETURNING
   16  FROM SUCH DUTY, NOT EXCEEDING A TOTAL OF THREE HUNDRED THIRTY-FIVE  DAYS
   17  IN  ANY  ONE  CALENDAR YEAR, AND NOT EXCEEDING THREE HUNDRED THIRTY-FIVE
   18  DAYS IN ANY ONE CONTINUOUS PERIOD OF SUCH ABSENCE.
   19    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD01595-01-3