Bill Text: NY A02068 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Grants excused leave to civil service employees during states of emergency as declared by the federal, state or a municipal government, when such employees are members of a volunteer fire department or a volunteer ambulance or rescue squad.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 10-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-15 - referred to governmental employees [A02068 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-A02068-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2068

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 15, 2025
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        Introduced  by M. of A. MANKTELOW, ANGELINO, BRABENEC, DeSTEFANO, DURSO,
          HAWLEY, MILLER, McDONOUGH, TAGUE, WALSH -- read once and  referred  to
          the Committee on Governmental Employees

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  civil service law, in relation to directing the
          granting of excused leave to civil service employees who  are  members
          of  a  volunteer  fire  department  or a volunteer ambulance or rescue
          squad during a state of emergency

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. The civil service law is amended by adding a new section 89
     2  to read as follows:
     3    § 89. Excused leave during a state of emergency. 1. Every person hold-
     4  ing  a position in the civil service who is a member of a volunteer fire
     5  department or of a volunteer ambulance squad shall be entitled to absent
     6  themself and shall be deemed to  have  a  leave  of  absence  from  such
     7  person's  duties  or  service  as  such civil service employee, during a
     8  state of emergency as declared by the federal, the state or a  municipal
     9  government,  when  such  civil  service  employee is required to perform
    10  duties or services for such volunteer department or squad as the  result
    11  of the state of emergency.
    12    2.  The entire period of the leave of absence granted pursuant to this
    13  section shall be excused leave and shall  not  be  charged  against  any
    14  other leave such civil service employee is otherwise entitled to.
    15    3.  Every  civil service employee taking such a leave of absence shall
    16  maintain a log of all volunteer hours  performed  during  the  state  of
    17  emergency.  Such  log shall be signed by the employee and a line officer
    18  of the volunteer  organization,  and  be  submitted  to  the  employee's
    19  employer.
    20    §  2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed-
    21  ing the date on which it shall have become a law.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03689-01-5