Establishes the hire a vet grant program; provides grants to municipalities where a veteran is hired and employed, for not less than twelve continuous and uninterrupted months in a full-time or part-time position.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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142--C
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE(Prefiled)
January 6, 2021
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Introduced by Sens. KAPLAN, WEIK -- read twice and ordered printed, and
when printed to be committed to the Committee on Veterans, Homeland
Security and Military Affairs -- committee discharged, bill amended,
ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee --
recommitted to the Committee on Veterans, Homeland Security and Mili-
tary Affairs in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee
discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
to said committee -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
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. The executive law is amended by adding a new section 369-f
2 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 twelve continuous and uninterrupted
8 months (hereinafter referred to as the "twelve-month period") in a full-
9 time or part-time position, a qualified veteran within the state. The
10 municipality may claim the grant in the year in which the qualified
11 veteran completes the twelve-month period of employment with the munici-
12 pality.
13 2. Qualified veteran. A qualified veteran is an individual:
14 (a) who served on active duty in the United States army, navy, air
15 force, space force, marine corps, coast guard or the reserves thereof,
16 or who served in active military service of the United States as a
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 member of the army national guard, air national guard, New York guard or
2 New York naval militia, or who served in the active uniformed services
3 of the United States as a member of the commissioned corps of the
4 national oceanic and atmospheric administration or the commissioned
5 corps of the United States public health service; who (i) was released
6 from active duty by general or honorable discharge; or (ii) has a quali-
7 fying condition, as defined in section three hundred fifty of this chap-
8 ter, and has received a discharge other than bad conduct or dishonorable
9 from such service; or (iii) is a discharged LGBT veteran, as defined in
10 section three hundred fifty of this chapter, and has received a
11 discharge other than bad conduct or dishonorable from such service;
12 (b) who commences employment with the municipality on or after January
13 first, two thousand twenty-three, and before January first, two thousand
14 twenty-five; and
15 (c) who certifies by signed affidavit, under penalty of perjury, that
16 he or she has not been employed for thirty-five or more hours during any
17 week in the one hundred eighty-day period immediately prior to his or
18 her employment by the municipality.
19 3. Prohibition. A municipality shall not discharge an employee and
20 hire a qualifying veteran solely for the purpose of qualifying for this
21 grant. This section shall not be deemed to amend, modify or supersede
22 any other law which prescribes the qualifications which a person must
23 have to be appointed to a position subject to the civil service law.
24 4. Amount of grant. (a) The amount of the grant shall be fifteen
25 percent of the total amount of wages paid to the qualified veteran
26 during the veteran's first twelve-month period of employment. Provided,
27 however, that, if the qualified veteran is a disabled veteran, as
28 defined in paragraph (b) of subdivision one of section eighty-five of
29 the civil service law, the amount of the grant shall be twenty percent
30 of the total amount of wages paid to the qualified veteran during the
31 veteran's first twelve-month period of employment.
32 (b) The grant allowed pursuant to this subdivision shall not exceed in
33 any year:
34 (i) fifteen thousand dollars for any qualified veteran, other than a
35 disabled veteran, employed in a full-time position for one thousand
36 eight hundred twenty or more hours in one twelve-month period;
37 (ii) twenty thousand dollars for any qualified veteran who is a disa-
38 bled veteran employed in a full-time position for one thousand eight
39 hundred twenty or more hours in one twelve-month period;
40 (iii) seven thousand five hundred dollars for any qualified veteran,
41 other than a disabled veteran, employed in a part-time position for at
42 least one thousand forty hours but not more than one thousand eight
43 hundred nineteen hours in one twelve-month period; and
44 (iv) ten thousand dollars for any qualified veteran who is a disabled
45 veteran employed in a part-time position for at least one thousand forty
46 hours but not more than one thousand eight hundred nineteen hours in one
47 twelve-month period.
48 5. Definition. For purposes of this section, "municipality" means any
49 county, city, town, village or school district.
50 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall expire and be
51 deemed repealed January 1, 2026.
