Relates to authorizing additional paid leave for health related services for certain employees not employed by the state who served in a combat theater or combat zone of operations.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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8250
IN SENATE
April 23, 2018
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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 health related services 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 is amended
2 by adding a new paragraph (c) to read as follows:
3 (c) Public officers or employees, as defined by paragraph (a) of
4 subdivision one of this section, who are not employees of the state of
5 New York and therefore not entitled to the benefits contained in para-
6 graph (b) of this subdivision, who have served in a combat theater or
7 combat zone of operations as documented by a copy of his or her DD214,
8 certificate of release or discharge from active duty, or other applica-
9 ble department of defense documentation, may be entitled to additional
10 paid leave for health related services. The governing body of the public
11 employer may, in its sole discretion, adopt a resolution or local law
12 providing for the payment of the salary or other compensation of such
13 public officers or employees for any and all periods of absence while
14 utilizing healthcare related services related to such duty, not exceed-
15 ing five working days, in any one calendar year. Any such local law or
16 resolution adopted must apply to the entire class of combat veterans
17 employed by such public employer.
18 § 2. This act shall take effect April 1, 2019.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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