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Assembly Bill A10529

2011-2012 Legislative Session

Expands the definition of time of war for purposes of calculating veterans' service credit

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2011-A10529 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Rules
Law Section:
Civil Service Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง85, Civ Serv L

2011-A10529 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Expands the definition of "time of war" for purposes of calculating veterans service credit.

2011-A10529 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  10529

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                              June 1, 2012
                               ___________

Introduced  by  COMMITTEE  ON  RULES  --  (at request of M. of A. Ramos,
  Castelli) -- read once and referred  to  the  Committee  on  Veterans'
  Affairs

AN  ACT  to  amend  the  civil service law, in relation to expanding the
  definition of "time of war"  for  purposes  of  calculating  veterans'
  service credit

  THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1. Subparagraph 8 of paragraph c of subdivision 1  of  section
85  of  the  civil  service  law, as added by chapter 467 of the laws of
1991, is amended and a new subparagraph 9 is added to read as follows:
  (8) Hostilities participated in by the military forces of  the  United
States  in  the  Persian  Gulf,  from the second day of August, nineteen
hundred ninety to the end of such hostilities INCLUDING MILITARY SERVICE
IN OPERATION ENDURING FREEDOM, OPERATION IRAQI FREEDOM OR OPERATION  NEW
DAWN  AND WAS THE RECIPIENT OF THE GLOBAL WAR ON TERRORISM EXPEDITIONARY
MEDAL OR THE IRAQI CAMPAIGN MEDAL OR THE AFGHANISTAN CAMPAIGN MEDAL.
  (9) HOSTILITIES PARTICIPATED IN BY THE MILITARY FORCES OF  THE  UNITED
STATES  IN  BOSNIA AND HERZGEGOVINA FROM NOVEMBER TWENTY-FIRST, NINETEEN
HUNDRED NINETY-FIVE TO NOVEMBER FIRST,  TWO  THOUSAND  SEVEN  OR  WAS  A
RECIPIENT OF THE KOSOVO CAMPAIGN MEDAL.
  S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.





 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD15743-01-2

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