Bill Text: NY A09379 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides that a member of a public retirement system of the state may obtain a total not to exceed three years of service credit for up to three years of military duty if the member has completed a term of state service, under orders from the governor of the state of New York, and as certified by a letter of release from such orders issued by the state division of military and naval affairs.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-05-21 - held for consideration in governmental employees [A09379 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A09379-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          9379

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      March 6, 2024
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M.  of A. BROOK-KRASNY, CHANG, NOVAKHOV -- read once and
          referred to the Committee on Governmental Employees

        AN ACT to amend the retirement and social security law, in  relation  to
          military service credit

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 1000 of the retirement and  social
     2  security  law, as amended by chapter 585 of the laws of 2022, is amended
     3  to read as follows:
     4    1. A member, upon application to such retirement system, may obtain  a
     5  total  not to exceed three years of service credit for up to three years
     6  of military duty, as defined in section two hundred forty-three  of  the
     7  military  law, if the member (a) was honorably discharged from the mili-
     8  tary, or (b) has a qualifying condition, as defined  in  section  [three
     9  hundred  fifty  of the executive] one of the veterans' services law, and
    10  has received a discharge other than bad  conduct  or  dishonorable  from
    11  such service, or (c) is a discharged LGBT veteran, as defined in section
    12  [three  hundred  fifty  of  the executive] one of the veterans' services
    13  law, and has received a discharge other than bad conduct or dishonorable
    14  from such service, or (d) has completed a term of state  service,  under
    15  orders from the governor of the state of New York, and as certified by a
    16  letter of release from such orders issued by the state division of mili-
    17  tary and naval affairs.
    18    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14644-01-4