STATE OF NEW YORK
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4719--A
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 10, 2021
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Introduced by Sens. BROOKS, AKSHAR -- read twice and ordered printed,
and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Veterans, Home-
land Security and Military Affairs -- committee discharged, bill
amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
tee
AN ACT to amend the civil service law, in relation to paid leave for
members of the civil air patrol
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The civil service law is amended by adding a new section
2 82-c to read as follows:
3 § 82-c. Civil air patrol volunteers; paid leave. Notwithstanding any
4 other provisions of law to the contrary, public officers and employees
5 of the state who are members of the United States Air Force Auxiliary
6 Civil Air Patrol or the United States Coast Guard Auxiliary Pilots shall
7 be granted leave from work with pay to participate in emergency services
8 during a declared state of emergency upon a written request from a unit
9 commander and the approval of the chief administrative officer of the
10 state agency, department or bureau for which the public officer or
11 employee serves. The public officer or employee shall be compensated at
12 his or her regular rate of pay for those regular work hours during which
13 the public officer or employee is absent from work while participating
14 in emergency services missions during a declared state of emergency.
15 Such leave shall be provided without loss of seniority, compensation,
16 sick leave, vacation leave or other overtime compensation to which the
17 volunteer is otherwise entitled and shall not exceed twenty days in any
18 calendar year.
19 § 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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