Bill Text: NY S06462 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Establishes the hire a vet grant program; provides grants to municipalities where a veteran is hired and employed, for not less than one year and for not less than thirty-five hours each week; grants up to $5,000 for a qualified vet and $15,000 for a qualified vet who is disabled.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 11-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2016-06-15 - referred to veterans' affairs [S06462 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S06462-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         6462--A
                    IN SENATE
                                    January 13, 2016
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  Sens. RANZENHOFER, CROCI, DeFRANCISCO, GALLIVAN, LITTLE,
          MARCHIONE, RITCHIE, SEWARD -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Veterans, Homeland Securi-
          ty and Military Affairs -- reported favorably from said committee  and
          committed  to  the  Committee on Finance -- committee discharged, bill
          amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said  commit-
          tee
        AN  ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to establishing the hire
          a vet grant program; and providing for the repeal of  such  provisions
          upon expiration thereof
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Article 17-A of the executive law is amended  by  adding  a
     2  new section 369-f to read as follows:
     3    § 369-f. Hire a vet grant. 1. Allowance of grant. A municipality shall
     4  be allowed a grant equivalent to the credit provided to eligible taxpay-
     5  ers in the "hire a vet credit" as established in subdivision twenty-nine
     6  of  section  210-B  of  the  tax  law, where such municipality hires and
     7  employs, for not less than one year and for not  less  than  thirty-five
     8  hours  each week, a qualified veteran within the state. The municipality
     9  may claim the grant in the year in which the qualified veteran completes
    10  one year of employment with the municipality.
    11    2. Qualified veteran. A qualified veteran is an individual:
    12    (a) who served on active duty in the United  States  army,  navy,  air
    13  force,  marine corps, coast guard or the reserves thereof, or who served
    14  in active military service of the United States as a member of the  army
    15  national  guard,  air  national  guard, New York guard or New York naval
    16  militia; who was released from  active  duty  by  general  or  honorable
    17  discharge after September eleventh, two thousand one;
    18    (b) who commences employment with the municipality on or after January
    19  first, two thousand sixteen; and
    20    (c)  who certifies by signed affidavit, under penalty of perjury, that
    21  he or she has not been employed for thirty-five or more hours during any
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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