STATE OF NEW YORK
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7292
IN SENATE
May 2, 2012
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Introduced by Sen. NOZZOLIO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Civil Service and Pensions
AN ACT to amend the retirement and social security law, in relation to
providing credit to members of public retirement systems of the state
for certain military service during the Iranian hostage crisis
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 1000 of the retirement and social
2 security law, as added by chapter 548 of the laws of 2000, is amended to
3 read as follows:
4 2. A member, upon application to such retirement system, may obtain a
5 total not to exceed three years of service credit for up to three years
6 of military duty, as defined in section two hundred forty-three of the
7 military law, if honorably discharged therefrom, if all or part of such
8 services was rendered in the military conflicts referenced below, as
9 follows:
10 (a) hostilities participated in by the military forces of the United
11 States in Iran, from the fourth day of November, nineteen hundred seven-
12 ty-nine to the twentieth day of January, nineteen hundred eighty-one, as
13 established by receipt of the armed forces expeditionary medal, the navy
14 expeditionary medal, or the marine corps expeditionary medal;
15 (b) hostilities participated in by the military forces of the United
16 States in Lebanon, from the first day of June, nineteen hundred eighty-
17 three to the first day of December, nineteen hundred eighty-seven, as
18 established by receipt of the armed forces expeditionary medal, the navy
19 expeditionary medal, or the marine corps expeditionary medal;
20 [(b)] (c) hostilities participated in by the military forces of the
21 United States in Grenada, from the twenty-third day of October, nineteen
22 hundred eighty-three to the twenty-first day of November, nineteen
23 hundred eighty-three, as established by receipt of the armed forces
24 expeditionary medal, the navy expeditionary medal, or the marine corps
25 expeditionary medal;
26 [(c)] (d) hostilities participated in by the military forces of the
27 United States in Panama, from the twentieth day of December, nineteen
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 hundred eighty-nine to the thirty-first day of January, nineteen hundred
2 ninety, as established by receipt of the armed forces expeditionary
3 medal, the navy expeditionary medal, or the marine corps expeditionary
4 medal; or
5 [(d)] (e) hostilities participated in by the military forces of the
6 United States, from the second day of August, nineteen hundred ninety,
7 to the end of such hostilities in case of a veteran who served in the
8 theater of operations including Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain,
9 Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Oman, the Gulf of Aden, the Gulf of
10 Oman, the Persian Gulf, the Red Sea, and the airspace above these
11 locations.
12 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
