Bill Text: NY S02203 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Permits private employers to adopt a veterans' hiring preference policy.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO VETERANS, HOMELAND SECURITY AND MILITARY AFFAIRS [S02203 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S02203-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2203

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 19, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  ORTT  --  read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Veterans, Homeland Securi-
          ty and Military Affairs

        AN ACT to amend the veterans' services law, in  relation  to  permitting
          private employers to adopt a veterans' preference employment policy

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

     1    Section 1. The veterans' services law  is  amended  by  adding  a  new
     2  section 36 to read as follows:
     3    §  36.  Private  employers  veterans' preference policy. 1. As used in
     4  this section:
     5    a. "Private employer" shall mean a corporation,  partnership,  limited
     6  liability  company,  not-for-profit  corporation or other private entity
     7  with one or more employees and excludes the state, a municipality, coun-
     8  ty or school district.
     9    b. "Veteran" shall mean an individual who served on active duty in the
    10  United States army, navy, marine corps, air force, coast  guard  or  the
    11  reserves  component,  or  who  served  in active military service of the
    12  United States as a member of the  army,  national  guard,  air  national
    13  guard,  New  York guard or New York naval militia, and meets one or more
    14  of the following:
    15    (i) Served on active duty for a period of more than one hundred eighty
    16  days and was discharged or released from active duty with other  than  a
    17  dishonorable discharge.
    18    (ii)  Was  discharged or released because of a service connected disa-
    19  bility.
    20    (iii) Was discharged or released from duty with other than a dishonor-
    21  able discharge from service under an order  to  active  duty,  excluding
    22  active duty for training.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD06765-01-3
        S. 2203                             2

     1    c.  "Veterans'  preference  employment  policy"  shall  mean a private
     2  employer's voluntary preference for hiring, promoting,  or  retaining  a
     3  veteran over another equally qualified applicant or employee.
     4    2.  A private employer may adopt and apply a voluntary veterans' pref-
     5  erence employment policy.
     6    3. A veterans' preference employment policy shall be  in  writing  and
     7  shall  be applied uniformly to employment decisions regarding the hiring
     8  or promotion of veterans or the retention of veterans during a reduction
     9  in the workforce.
    10    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    11  it shall have become a law; provided however that if part PP of  chapter
    12  56 of the laws of 2022 shall not yet have taken effect on or before such
    13  date  then  this  act shall take effect on the same date and in the same
    14  manner as such part takes effect.