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Assembly Bill A5531

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to military service credit

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2025-A5531 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Governmental Employees
Law Section:
Retirement and Social Security Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §1000, R & SS L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
A9379

2025-A5531 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides that a member of a public retirement system of the state may obtain a total not to exceed three years of service credit for up to three years of military duty if the member has completed a term of state service, under orders from the governor of the state of New York, and as certified by a letter of release from such orders issued by the state division of military and naval affairs.

2025-A5531 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5531
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 14, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of A. BROOK-KRASNY, CHANG, NOVAKHOV -- read once and
   referred to the Committee on Governmental Employees
 
 AN ACT to amend the retirement and social security law, in  relation  to
   military service credit
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 1000 of the retirement and  social
 security  law, as amended by chapter 585 of the laws of 2022, is amended
 to read as follows:
   1. 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 the member (a) was honorably discharged from the mili-
 tary, or (b) has a qualifying condition, as defined  in  section  [three
 hundred  fifty  of the executive] ONE OF THE VETERANS' SERVICES law, and
 has received a discharge other than bad  conduct  or  dishonorable  from
 such service, or (c) is a discharged LGBT veteran, as defined in section
 [three  hundred  fifty  of  the executive] ONE OF THE VETERANS' SERVICES
 law, and has received a discharge other than bad conduct or dishonorable
 from such service, OR (D) HAS COMPLETED A TERM OF STATE  SERVICE,  UNDER
 ORDERS FROM THE GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, AND AS CERTIFIED BY A
 LETTER OF RELEASE FROM SUCH ORDERS ISSUED BY THE STATE DIVISION OF MILI-
 TARY AND NAVAL AFFAIRS.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD09247-01-5

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