What's happening
The bill allows New York public employees who served in combat zones to receive additional paid leave for healthcare related to their service.
Why it matters
Expands support for veterans employed by New York State. by providing up to eight additional paid workdays per year specifically for healthcare needs stemming from combat service—addressing ongoing health impacts that may not be fully resolved after deployment.
Reduces the financial and job security burden. for public employees who are combat veterans, allowing them to seek necessary medical treatment without having to use personal or unpaid leave, which is particularly significant for those with chronic or recurring service-related health issues.
Requires official documentation of combat service (such as a DD214). to qualify, ensuring that the benefit is targeted toward individuals with verified combat-zone experience and related healthcare needs, which may help prevent misuse and focus resources on those most affected.
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Expand Paid Military Leave
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Sponsors
1 Co-sponsor
History
- Substituted by S2911A
- Rules report cal.590
- Reported
- Reported referred to rules
- Reported referred to ways and means
- Print number 3198a
- Amend and recommit to governmental operations
- Referred to governmental operations
Companion bill
The same bill in the other chamber. A bill becomes law when one version passes both houses and the governor signs it, so either number can carry it.
Extra Paid Leave for Veterans
Signed by Governor · Sponsor Thomas Croci
Full text
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STATE OF NEW YORK
3198--A
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 27, 2017
Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN -- read once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
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 Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Subdivision 5 of section 242 of the military law, as amended by chapter 161 of the laws of 1984, is amended to read as follows:
5. Pay for military duty. (a) Every public officer or employee shall be paid his or her salary or other compensation as such public officer or employee for any and all periods of absence while engaged in the performance of ordered military duty, and while going to and returning from such duty, not exceeding a total of thirty days or twenty-two working days, whichever is greater, in any one calendar year and not exceeding thirty days or twenty-two working days, whichever is greater, in any one continuous period of such absence.
(b) Every public officer or employee employed by the state of New York who served in a combat theater or combat zone of operations as documented by a copy of his or her DD214, certificate of release or discharge from active duty, or other applicable department of defense documentation, shall be paid his or her salary or other compensation as such public officer or employee for any and all periods of absence while utilizing any healthcare related services related to such duty, not exceeding eight working days, in any one calendar year.
§ 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD00987-05-7
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