Provides that the periods of the Iranian Hostage Crisis and from November 21, 1979 to October 20, 1981 be "time of war" periods for civil service credit.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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2585
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 20, 2015
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Introduced by M. of A. FITZPATRICK -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Veterans' Affairs
AN ACT to amend the civil service law, in relation to making the Iranian
Hostage Crisis "time of war" for civil service credit
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph (c) of subdivision 1 of section 85 of the civil
2 service law is amended by adding two new subparagraphs 9 and 10 to read
3 as follows:
4 (9) Hostilities participated in by military forces of the United
5 States, known as the Iranian Hostage Crisis, in the Indian
6 Ocean/Iran/Yemen, from the eighth day of December, nineteen hundred
7 seventy-eight to the sixth day of June, nineteen hundred seventy-nine,
8 as established by receipt of the armed forces expeditionary medal, the
9 navy expeditionary medal, or the marine corps expeditionary medal.
10 (10) Hostilities participated in by military forces of the United
11 States in the Indian Ocean/Iran, from the twenty-first day of November,
12 nineteen hundred seventy-nine to the twentieth day of October, nineteen
13 hundred eighty-one, as established by receipt of the armed forces exped-
14 itionary medal, the navy expeditionary medal, or the marine corps exped-
15 itionary medal.
16 § 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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