Bill Text: NY A04430 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Establishes the New York working soldiers' assistance program; provides a grant to private employers for paying employees currently in active duty in the military.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 7-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-07-15 - held for consideration in labor [A04430 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A04430-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4430
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 4, 2019
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        Introduced  by  M. of A. B. MILLER, FINCH -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of
          A. HAWLEY -- read once and referred to the Committee on Labor
        AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to  creating  the  "New  York
          working soldiers' assistance program"
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. The labor law is amended by adding a new section  219-b  to
     2  read as follows:
     3    §  219-b.  New  York  working  soldiers'  assistance program.   1. The
     4  department shall establish a matching grant  program  to  award  private
     5  sector  employers  of New York state who provide wages to New York state
     6  residents who are members of the national guard or other reserve  compo-
     7  nent  of the armed forces of the United States and are ordered to active
     8  military duty in a combat theater or combat zone of operations.
     9    2. Such grant shall reimburse the employer for not more than  one-half
    10  of the difference between the monthly wage paid by the employer prior to
    11  the  date  the employee was called to or ordered to active military duty
    12  in a combat theater or combat zone of operation and the  amount  of  the
    13  employee's military pay as defined in section 101(21) of title 37 of the
    14  United  States  Code  and  allowances  payable to a member of the United
    15  States armed forces under chapter 7 of title 37  of  the  United  States
    16  Code and is only available for federal military active duty served on or
    17  after January first, two thousand nineteen.
    18    3. The department shall develop a plan by no later than October first,
    19  two  thousand  twenty,  to administer the application and payment proce-
    20  dures pursuant to this section.
    21    4. For the purposes of this section, the  employee  must  be  a  legal
    22  resident  of  the state for the period of time he or she was deployed to
    23  active military duty.
    24    § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next  succeed-
    25  ing  the date on which it shall have become a law. Effective immediately
    26  the commissioner of labor is authorized to promulgate any and all  rules
    27  and  regulations and take any other measures necessary to implement this
    28  act on its effective date on or before such date.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD06577-01-9