Establishes the hire a vet grant program; provides grants to municipalities where a veteran is hired and employed, for not less than one year and for not less than thirty-five hours each week; grants up to $5,000 for a qualified vet and $15,000 for a qualified vet who is disabled.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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5167
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 7, 2019
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Introduced by M. of A. SCHIMMINGER, DenDEKKER, BENEDETTO, BUCHWALD,
SANTABARBARA, STECK, BLAKE, COLTON, COOK, CUSICK, OTIS, WEPRIN,
GUNTHER, HUNTER -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. ABBATE, DAVILA,
THIELE -- read once and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs
AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to establishing the hire
a vet grant program; and providing for the repeal of such provisions
upon expiration thereof
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Article 17-A of the executive law is amended by adding a
2 new section 369-f to read as follows:
3 § 369-f. Hire a vet grant. 1. Allowance of grant. A municipality shall
4 be allowed a grant equivalent to the credit provided to eligible taxpay-
5 ers in the "hire a vet credit" as established in subdivision twenty-nine
6 of section two hundred ten-B of the tax law, where such municipality
7 hires and employs, for not less than one year and for not less than
8 thirty-five hours each week, a qualified veteran within the state. The
9 municipality may claim the grant in the year in which the qualified
10 veteran completes one year of employment with the municipality.
11 2. Qualified veteran. A qualified veteran is an individual:
12 (a) who served on active duty in the United States army, navy, air
13 force, marine corps, coast guard or the reserves thereof, or who served
14 in active military service of the United States as a member of the army
15 national guard, air national guard, New York guard or New York naval
16 militia; who was released from active duty by general or honorable
17 discharge after September eleventh, two thousand one;
18 (b) who commences employment with the municipality on or after January
19 first, two thousand twenty, and before January first, two thousand twen-
20 ty-two; and
21 (c) who certifies by signed affidavit, under penalty of perjury, that
22 he or she has not been employed for thirty-five or more hours during any
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 week in the one hundred eighty day period immediately prior to his or
2 her employment by the municipality.
3 3. Prohibition. A municipality shall not discharge an employee and
4 hire a qualifying veteran solely for the purpose of qualifying for this
5 grant. This section shall not be deemed to amend, modify or supersede
6 any other law which prescribes the qualifications which a person must
7 have to be appointed to a position subject to the civil service law.
8 4. Amount of grant. The amount of the grant shall be ten percent of
9 the total amount of wages paid to the qualified veteran during the
10 veteran's first full year of employment. Provided, however, that, if the
11 qualified veteran is a disabled veteran, as defined in paragraph (b) of
12 subdivision one of section eighty-five of the civil service law, the
13 amount of the grant shall be fifteen percent of the total amount of
14 wages paid to the qualified veteran during the veteran's first full year
15 of employment. The grant allowed pursuant to this subdivision shall not
16 exceed in any year, five thousand dollars for any qualified veteran and
17 fifteen thousand dollars for any qualified veteran who is a disabled
18 veteran.
19 5. Definitions. For purposes of this section, "municipality" means any
20 county, city, town, village or school district.
21 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall expire and be
22 deemed repealed January 1, 2023.
