Bill Text: NY S00721 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 721 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Relates to establishing the private employers veterans' preference policy act.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 4-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-06-20 - COMMITTED TO RULES [S00721 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S00721-Introduced.html

                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           721
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                     January 4, 2017
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  Sens.  ORTT,  CROCI, LARKIN, MARCHIONE -- read twice and
          ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee  on
          Veterans, Homeland Security and Military Affairs
        AN  ACT  to  amend  the executive law, in relation to permitting private
          employers to adopt a veterans' preference employment policy
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1. The executive law is amended by adding a new section 369-f
     2  to read as follows:
     3    § 369-f. Private employers veterans' preference policy. 1. As used  in
     4  this section:
     5    a.  "Private  employer" shall mean a corporation, partnership, limited
     6  liability company, not-for-profit corporation or  other  private  entity
     7  with one or more employees and excludes the state, a municipality, coun-
     8  ty or school district.
     9    b. "Veteran" shall mean an individual who served on active duty in the
    10  United  States  army,  navy, marine corps, air force, coast guard or the
    11  reserves component, or who served in  active  military  service  of  the
    12  United  States  as  a  member  of the army, national guard, air national
    13  guard, New York guard or New York naval militia, and meets one  or  more
    14  of the following:
    15    (i) Served on active duty for a period of more than one hundred eighty
    16  days  and  was discharged or released from active duty with other than a
    17  dishonorable discharge.
    18    (ii) Was discharged or released because of a service  connected  disa-
    19  bility.
    20    (iii) Was discharged or released from duty with other than a dishonor-
    21  able  discharge  from  service  under an order to active duty, excluding
    22  active duty for training.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD04603-01-7

        S. 721                              2
     1    c. "Veterans' preference  employment  policy"  shall  mean  a  private
     2  employer's  voluntary  preference  for hiring, promoting, or retaining a
     3  veteran over another equally qualified applicant or employee.
     4    2.  A private employer may adopt and apply a voluntary veterans' pref-
     5  erence employment policy.
     6    3. A veterans' preference employment policy shall be  in  writing  and
     7  shall  be applied uniformly to employment decisions regarding the hiring
     8  or promotion of veterans or the retention of veterans during a reduction
     9  in the workforce.
    10    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    11  it shall have become a law.