Bill Text: NY A04325 | 2017-2018 | 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 (Democrat 19-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-06-05 - reported referred to ways and means [A04325 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A04325-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         4325--B
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 2, 2017
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  SCHIMMINGER, DenDEKKER, BENEDETTO, BUCHWALD,
          SANTABARBARA, STECK, BLAKE, COLTON, COOK, CUSICK, OTIS, WEPRIN,  HOOP-
          ER,  GUNTHER, HUNTER -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. ABBATE, DAVILA,
          MAGEE, THIELE -- read once and referred to the Committee on  Veterans'
          Affairs  --  recommitted  to  the  Committee  on  Veterans' Affairs in
          accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged,  bill
          amended,  ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
          tee -- again reported from said  committee  with  amendments,  ordered
          reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
        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;
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1    (b) who commences employment with the municipality on or after January
     2  first, two thousand nineteen, and before  January  first,  two  thousand
     3  twenty-one; and
     4    (c)  who certifies by signed affidavit, under penalty of perjury, that
     5  he or she has not been employed for thirty-five or more hours during any
     6  week in the one hundred eighty day period immediately prior  to  his  or
     7  her employment by the municipality.
     8    3.  Prohibition.  A  municipality  shall not discharge an employee and
     9  hire a qualifying veteran solely for the purpose of qualifying for  this
    10  grant.  This  section  shall not be deemed to amend, modify or supersede
    11  any other law which prescribes the qualifications which  a  person  must
    12  have to be appointed to a position subject to the civil service law.
    13    4.  Amount  of  grant. The amount of the grant shall be ten percent of
    14  the total amount of wages paid  to  the  qualified  veteran  during  the
    15  veteran's first full year of employment. Provided, however, that, if the
    16  qualified  veteran is a disabled veteran, as defined in paragraph (b) of
    17  subdivision one of section eighty-five of the  civil  service  law,  the
    18  amount  of  the  grant  shall  be fifteen percent of the total amount of
    19  wages paid to the qualified veteran during the veteran's first full year
    20  of employment. The grant allowed pursuant to this subdivision shall  not
    21  exceed  in any year, five thousand dollars for any qualified veteran and
    22  fifteen thousand dollars for any qualified veteran  who  is  a  disabled
    23  veteran.
    24    5. Definitions. For purposes of this section, "municipality" means any
    25  county, city, town, village or school district.
    26    §  2.  This  act shall take effect immediately and shall expire and be
    27  deemed repealed January 1, 2022.