Relates to authorizing additional paid leave for certain employees with military combat experience, while engaged in the performance of ordered military duty.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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5268
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
May 12, 2015
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Introduced by Sen. CROCI -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Veterans, Homeland Securi-
ty and Military Affairs
AN ACT to amend the military law, in relation to authorizing additional
paid leave 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, as
2 amended by chapter 161 of the laws of 1984, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 5. Pay for military duty. [Every] (a) Except as otherwise provided in
5 paragraph (b) of this subdivision, every public officer or employee
6 shall be paid his or her salary or other compensation as such public
7 officer or employee for any and all periods of absence while engaged in
8 the performance of ordered military duty, and while going to and return-
9 ing from such duty, not exceeding a total of thirty days or twenty-two
10 working days, whichever is greater, in any one calendar year and not
11 exceeding thirty days or twenty-two working days, whichever is greater,
12 in any one continuous period of such absence.
13 (b) Every public officer or employee employed by the state of New York
14 with military combat experience, as evidenced by the public officer or
15 employee's DD-214 and other department of defense documentation, shall
16 be paid his or her salary or other compensation as such public officer
17 or employee for any and all periods of absence while engaged in the
18 performance of ordered military duty, while going to and returning from
19 such duty, and while utilizing any healthcare related services related
20 to such duty, not exceeding forty days or thirty working days, whichever
21 is greater, in any one calendar year and not exceeding forty days or
22 thirty working days, whichever is greater, in any one continuous period
23 of such absence.
24 § 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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