STATE OF NEW YORK
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2277
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 15, 2015
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Introduced by M. of A. CROUCH, McDONOUGH, RAIA -- Multi-Sponsored by --
M. of A. LOPEZ -- read once and referred to the Committee on Govern-
mental Employees
AN ACT to amend the civil service law, in relation to paid leave for
members of the civil air patrol
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The civil service law is amended by adding a new section
2 82-c to read as follows:
3 § 82-c. Civil air patrol volunteers; paid leave. Notwithstanding any
4 other provisions of law to the contrary, public officers and employees
5 of the state who are members of the United States Air Force Auxiliary
6 Civil Air Patrol or the United States Coast Guard Auxiliary Pilots shall
7 be granted leave from work with pay to participate in training, drills
8 or emergency services upon a written request from a unit commander and
9 the approval of the chief administrative officer of the state agency,
10 department or bureau for which the public officer or employee serves.
11 The public officer or employee shall be compensated at his or her regu-
12 lar rate of pay for those regular work hours during which the public
13 officer or employee is absent from work while participating in author-
14 ized training, drills or emergency services missions. Such leave shall
15 be provided without loss of seniority, compensation, sick leave, vaca-
16 tion leave or other overtime compensation to which the volunteer is
17 otherwise entitled and shall not exceed twenty days in any calendar
18 year.
19 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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