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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