Bill Text: NY A08362 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Updates provisions for leaves of absence for public employees who are war veterans to continue their education so as to include the current federal veterans educational programs.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - referred to governmental employees [A08362 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A08362-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8362
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                      June 12, 2017
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  DenDEKKER  --  read once and referred to the
          Committee on Governmental Employees
        AN ACT to amend the military law, in relation to leave  of  absence  for
          public employees who are war veterans to continue study
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Section 246 of the military law, as amended by  chapter  43
     2  of the laws of 1967, is amended to read as follows:
     3    § 246. Leave  of  absence for public employees who are war veterans to
     4  continue study.   Notwithstanding the  provisions  of  any  law  to  the
     5  contrary,  every  public  officer  and employee, who served in the armed
     6  forces of the United States on or after  September  sixteenth,  nineteen
     7  hundred  forty, and prior to the termination of hostilities in world war
     8  II, or during the period of hostilities engaged in by the  armed  forces
     9  of  the  United  States on and after June twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred
    10  fifty, or who served in the armed forces  of  the  United  States  after
    11  January  thirty-first,  nineteen hundred fifty-five, and who is eligible
    12  under the provisions enacted by the congress of the United States  known
    13  as  ["Servicemen's  Readjustment Act of nineteen hundred forty-four," or
    14  "Veterans' Readjustment Assistance Act of nineteen  hundred  fifty-two,"
    15  or "Veterans' Readjustment Benefits Act of nineteen hundred sixty-six,"]
    16  the "Post - 9/11 GI Bill", or "Montgomery GI Bill - Active Duty" (MGIB -
    17  AD),  or  "Montgomery GI Bill - Selected Reserve" (MGIB-SR), or "Reserve
    18  Educational Assistance Program" (REAP), or "Veterans Educational Assist-
    19  ance Program" (VEAP), or "Educational Assistance Test Program"  (Section
    20  901 of Public Law 96-342), to continue the pursuit of studies or to take
    21  a  refresher  or  retraining  course shall be granted a leave of absence
    22  from his position for the period of such course of study, not to  exceed
    23  four  years.  Such public officer or employee shall be reinstated to his
    24  position provided he makes application  for  such  reinstatement  within
    25  sixty days after the termination of such course of study.
    26    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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