Bill Text: NY S07036 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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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: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO FINANCE [S07036 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S07036-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7036

                    IN SENATE

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 8, 2020
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        Introduced by Sens. KAPLAN, RANZENHOFER -- read twice and ordered print-
          ed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Finance

        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  two  hundred  ten-B of the tax law, where such municipality
     7  hires and employs, for not less than one year  and  for  not  less  than
     8  thirty-five  hours  each week, a qualified veteran within the state. The
     9  municipality may claim the grant in the  year  in  which  the  qualified
    10  veteran completes 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 twenty, and before January first, two thousand twen-
    20  ty-two; and
    21    (c) who certifies by signed affidavit, under penalty of perjury,  that
    22  he or she has not been employed for thirty-five or more hours during any
    23  week  in  the  one hundred eighty day period immediately prior to his or
    24  her employment by the municipality.
    25    3. Prohibition. A municipality shall not  discharge  an  employee  and
    26  hire  a qualifying veteran solely for the purpose of qualifying for this

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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        S. 7036                             2

     1  grant. This section shall not be deemed to amend,  modify  or  supersede
     2  any  other  law  which prescribes the qualifications which a person must
     3  have to be appointed to a position subject to the civil service law.
     4    4.  Amount  of  grant. The amount of the grant shall be ten percent of
     5  the total amount of wages paid  to  the  qualified  veteran  during  the
     6  veteran's first full year of employment. Provided, however, that, if the
     7  qualified  veteran is a disabled veteran, as defined in paragraph (b) of
     8  subdivision one of section eighty-five of the  civil  service  law,  the
     9  amount  of  the  grant  shall  be fifteen percent of the total amount of
    10  wages paid to the qualified veteran during the veteran's first full year
    11  of employment. The grant allowed pursuant to this subdivision shall  not
    12  exceed  in any year, five thousand dollars for any qualified veteran and
    13  fifteen thousand dollars for any qualified veteran  who  is  a  disabled
    14  veteran.
    15    5. Definitions. For purposes of this section, "municipality" means any
    16  county, city, town, village or school district.
    17    §  2.  This  act shall take effect immediately and shall expire and be
    18  deemed repealed January 1, 2023.