Senate Bill S3722

2013-2014 Legislative Session

Provides credit to members of public retirement systems of the state for certain military service during the Iranian hostage crisis

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2013-S3722 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A5577
Current Committee:
Senate Civil Service And Pensions
Law Section:
Retirement and Social Security Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §1000, R & SS L
Versions Introduced in 2011-2012 Legislative Session:
S7292

2013-S3722 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides credit to members of public retirement systems of the state for certain military service during the Iranian hostage crisis.

2013-S3722 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2013-S3722 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  3722

                       2013-2014 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                            February 12, 2013
                               ___________

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:

  Section  1. Subdivision 2 of section 1000 of the retirement and social
security law, as added by chapter 548 of the laws of 2000, is amended to
read as follows:
  2. A member, upon application to such retirement system, may obtain  a
total  not to exceed three years of service credit for up to three years
of military duty, as defined in section two hundred forty-three  of  the
military  law, if honorably discharged therefrom, if all or part of such
services was rendered in the military  conflicts  referenced  below,  as
follows:
  (a)  HOSTILITIES  PARTICIPATED IN BY THE MILITARY FORCES OF THE UNITED
STATES IN IRAN, FROM THE FOURTH DAY OF NOVEMBER, NINETEEN HUNDRED SEVEN-
TY-NINE TO THE TWENTIETH DAY OF JANUARY, NINETEEN HUNDRED EIGHTY-ONE, AS
ESTABLISHED BY RECEIPT OF THE ARMED FORCES EXPEDITIONARY MEDAL, THE NAVY
EXPEDITIONARY MEDAL, OR THE MARINE CORPS EXPEDITIONARY MEDAL;
  (B) hostilities participated in by the military forces of  the  United
States  in Lebanon, from the first day of June, nineteen hundred eighty-
three to the first day of December, nineteen  hundred  eighty-seven,  as
established by receipt of the armed forces expeditionary medal, the navy
expeditionary medal, or the marine corps expeditionary medal;
  [(b)]  (C)  hostilities  participated in by the military forces of the
United States in Grenada, from the twenty-third day of October, nineteen
hundred eighty-three to  the  twenty-first  day  of  November,  nineteen
hundred  eighty-three,  as  established  by  receipt of the armed forces

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD01774-02-3

              

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