Authorizes pay for military leave for public employees who are absent due to military duty; allows public employees to collect paid salary and compensation for thirty days or twenty-two working days, whichever is greater, in addition to collecting the difference between salary and compensation for another three hundred thirty-five days.
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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2827
2013-2014 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
January 18, 2013
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Introduced by M. of A. REILICH, KOLB -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A.
BUTLER, FINCH, McDONOUGH, THIELE, WEISENBERG -- read once and referred
to the Committee on Governmental Employees
AN ACT to amend the military law, in relation to authorizing additional
paid leave for public employees who are absent on military duty
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, 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 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 work-
ing days, whichever is greater, in any one calendar year and not exceed-
ing thirty days or twenty-two working days, whichever is greater, in any
one continuous period of such absence.
(B) EVERY PUBLIC OFFICER OR EMPLOYEE SHALL BE PAID THE DIFFERENCE
BETWEEN HIS SALARY AND 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 THREE HUNDRED THIRTY-FIVE DAYS
IN ANY ONE CALENDAR YEAR, AND NOT EXCEEDING THREE HUNDRED THIRTY-FIVE
DAYS IN ANY ONE CONTINUOUS PERIOD OF SUCH ABSENCE.
S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD01595-01-3
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