Provides for hazard duty pay of an additional twenty-five hundred dollars for essential work performed in accordance with a state emergency disaster declaration.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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496
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE(Prefiled)
January 6, 2021
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Introduced by Sen. GOUNARDES -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Civil Service and Pensions
AN ACT to amend the civil service law, in relation to hazard duty pay
for essential work performed in accordance with a state emergency
disaster declaration
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 130 of the civil service law is amended by adding a
2 new subdivision 15 to read as follows:
3 15. Essential worker hazard duty payments during a state emergency
4 disaster declaration. (a) Any state employee providing essential
5 services or functions during any state disaster emergency declared
6 pursuant to article two-B of the executive law and designated on or
7 after March first, two thousand twenty as an essential worker pursuant
8 to any law, rule, regulation or executive order shall be awarded a
9 hazardous duty pay differential.
10 (b) Such differential shall equal twenty-five hundred dollars. Such
11 differential shall be in addition to such essential employee's basic
12 annual salary, and shall not affect or impair any performance advance-
13 ment payments, performance awards, longevity payments or other rights or
14 benefits to which such employee may be entitled under the provisions of
15 this chapter; provided, however, that any differential payable pursuant
16 to this subdivision shall be included as compensation for retirement
17 purposes. Employees eligible for the hazard duty payments authorized by
18 this subdivision shall also receive thirty-five hours of additional
19 vacation time accrual.
20 (c) The director of the budget shall adopt regulations to carry out
21 the provisions of this subdivision.
22 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall be deemed to
23 have been in full force and effect on and after March 1, 2020.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD03221-01-1
