Assembly Bill A3759

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Relates to hazard duty pay for essential work performed in accordance with a state emergency disaster declaration

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Current Bill Status - In Assembly Committee

  • 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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2023-A3759 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S4971
Current Committee:
Assembly Governmental Employees
Law Section:
Civil Service Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §130, Civ Serv L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: S8839
2021-2022: A6559, S496

2023-A3759 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides for hazard duty pay of an additional twenty-five hundred dollars for essential work performed in accordance with a state emergency disaster declaration.

2023-A3759 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   3759
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 7, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of A. PHEFFER AMATO -- read once and referred to the
   Committee on Governmental Employees
 
 AN ACT to amend the civil service law, in relation to  hazard  duty  pay
   for  essential  work  performed  in  accordance with a state emergency
   disaster declaration

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 130 of the civil service law is amended by adding a
 new subdivision 15 to read as follows:
   15.  ESSENTIAL  WORKER  HAZARD  DUTY PAYMENTS DURING A STATE EMERGENCY
 DISASTER  DECLARATION.  (A)  ANY  STATE  EMPLOYEE  PROVIDING   ESSENTIAL
 SERVICES  OR  FUNCTIONS  DURING  ANY  STATE  DISASTER EMERGENCY DECLARED
 PURSUANT TO ARTICLE TWO-B OF THE EXECUTIVE  LAW  AND  DESIGNATED  ON  OR
 AFTER  MARCH  FIRST, TWO THOUSAND TWENTY AS AN ESSENTIAL WORKER PURSUANT
 TO ANY LAW, RULE, REGULATION OR  EXECUTIVE  ORDER  SHALL  BE  AWARDED  A
 HAZARDOUS DUTY PAY DIFFERENTIAL.
   (B)  SUCH  DIFFERENTIAL  SHALL EQUAL TWENTY-FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS. SUCH
 DIFFERENTIAL SHALL BE IN ADDITION TO  SUCH  ESSENTIAL  EMPLOYEE'S  BASIC
 ANNUAL  SALARY,  AND SHALL NOT AFFECT OR IMPAIR ANY PERFORMANCE ADVANCE-
 MENT PAYMENTS, PERFORMANCE AWARDS, LONGEVITY PAYMENTS OR OTHER RIGHTS OR
 BENEFITS TO WHICH SUCH EMPLOYEE MAY BE ENTITLED UNDER THE PROVISIONS  OF
 THIS  CHAPTER; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, THAT ANY DIFFERENTIAL PAYABLE PURSUANT
 TO THIS SUBDIVISION SHALL BE INCLUDED  AS  COMPENSATION  FOR  RETIREMENT
 PURPOSES.  EMPLOYEES ELIGIBLE FOR THE HAZARD DUTY PAYMENTS AUTHORIZED BY
 THIS SUBDIVISION SHALL ALSO  RECEIVE  THIRTY-FIVE  HOURS  OF  ADDITIONAL
 VACATION TIME ACCRUAL.
   (C)  THE  DIRECTOR  OF THE BUDGET SHALL ADOPT REGULATIONS TO CARRY OUT
 THE PROVISIONS OF THIS SUBDIVISION.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and  shall  be  deemed  to
 have been in full force and effect on and after March 1, 2020.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD07853-01-3

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