Bill Text: NY A09409 | 2015-2016 | 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: Partisan Bill (Democrat 20-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-05-10 - print number 9409b [A09409 Detail]
Download: New_York-2015-A09409-Introduced.html
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 20-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-05-10 - print number 9409b [A09409 Detail]
Download: New_York-2015-A09409-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 9409 IN ASSEMBLY March 2, 2016 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. SCHIMMINGER, DenDEKKER, BENEDETTO, CERETTO, BUCHWALD, SANTABARBARA, STECK, BLAKE, COLTON, COOK, CUSICK, OTIS, WEPRIN -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. ABBATE, DAVILA, MAGEE, ROBIN- SON, THIELE -- read once and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs 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 22 week in the one hundred eighty day period immediately prior to his or 23 her employment by the municipality. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD13355-01-5