Bill Text: NY S05285 | 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: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Passed) 2019-11-11 - signed chap.476 [S05285 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S05285-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         5285--A

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                     April 23, 2019
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sens.  BROOKS, SERINO -- read twice and ordered printed,
          and when printed to be committed to the Committee on  Veterans,  Home-
          land  Security  and  Military  Affairs  --  committee discharged, bill
          amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said  commit-
          tee

        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. Nothing in this paragraph
    20  shall be construed to diminish the rights, privileges,  or  remedies  of
    21  any employee under any collective bargaining agreement.
    22    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
    23  it shall have become a law.

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