Bill Text: NY S04060 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Establishes the hire a vet grant program; provides grants to municipalities where a veteran is hired and employed, for not less than twelve continuous and uninterrupted months in a full-time or part-time position.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 4-2)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO VETERANS, HOMELAND SECURITY AND MILITARY AFFAIRS [S04060 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-S04060-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 4060 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN SENATE February 2, 2023 ___________ Introduced by Sens. MANNION, WEIK -- 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 veterans' services 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. The veterans' services law is amended by adding a new 2 section 36 to read as follows: 3 § 36. Hire a vet grant. 1. Allowance of grant. A municipality shall be 4 allowed a grant equivalent to the credit provided to eligible taxpayers 5 in the "hire a vet credit" as established in subdivision twenty-nine of 6 section two hundred ten-B of the tax law, where such municipality hires 7 and employs, for not less than twelve continuous and uninterrupted 8 months (hereinafter referred to as the "twelve-month period") in a full- 9 time or part-time position, a qualified veteran within the state. The 10 municipality may claim the grant in the year in which the qualified 11 veteran completes the twelve-month period of employment with the munici- 12 pality. 13 2. Qualified veteran. A qualified veteran is an individual: 14 (a) who served on active duty in the United States army, navy, air 15 force, space force, marine corps, coast guard or the reserves thereof, 16 or who served in active military service of the United States as a 17 member of the army national guard, air national guard, New York guard or 18 New York naval militia, or who served in the active uniformed services 19 of the United States as a member of the commissioned corps of the 20 national oceanic and atmospheric administration or the commissioned 21 corps of the United States public health service; who (i) was released 22 from active duty by general or honorable discharge; or (ii) has a quali- 23 fying condition, as defined in section one of this chapter, and has EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD03822-01-3S. 4060 2 1 received a discharge other than bad conduct or dishonorable from such 2 service; or (iii) is a discharged LGBT veteran, as defined in section 3 one of this chapter, and has received a discharge other than bad conduct 4 or dishonorable from such service; 5 (b) who commences employment with the municipality on or after January 6 first, two thousand twenty-four, and before January first, two thousand 7 twenty-six; and 8 (c) who certifies by signed affidavit, under penalty of perjury, that 9 he or she has not been employed for thirty-five or more hours during any 10 week in the one hundred eighty-day period immediately prior to his or 11 her employment by the municipality. 12 3. Prohibition. A municipality shall not discharge an employee and 13 hire a qualifying veteran solely for the purpose of qualifying for this 14 grant. This section shall not be deemed to amend, modify or supersede 15 any other law which prescribes the qualifications which a person must 16 have to be appointed to a position subject to the civil service law. 17 4. Amount of grant. (a) The amount of the grant shall be fifteen 18 percent of the total amount of wages paid to the qualified veteran 19 during the veteran's first twelve-month period of employment. Provided, 20 however, that, if the qualified veteran is a disabled veteran, as 21 defined in paragraph (b) of subdivision one of section eighty-five of 22 the civil service law, the amount of the grant shall be twenty percent 23 of the total amount of wages paid to the qualified veteran during the 24 veteran's first twelve-month period of employment. 25 (b) The grant allowed pursuant to this subdivision shall not exceed in 26 any year: 27 (i) fifteen thousand dollars for any qualified veteran, other than a 28 disabled veteran, employed in a full-time position for one thousand 29 eight hundred twenty or more hours in one twelve-month period; 30 (ii) twenty thousand dollars for any qualified veteran who is a disa- 31 bled veteran employed in a full-time position for one thousand eight 32 hundred twenty or more hours in one twelve-month period; 33 (iii) seven thousand five hundred dollars for any qualified veteran, 34 other than a disabled veteran, employed in a part-time position for at 35 least one thousand forty hours but not more than one thousand eight 36 hundred nineteen hours in one twelve-month period; and 37 (iv) ten thousand dollars for any qualified veteran who is a disabled 38 veteran employed in a part-time position for at least one thousand forty 39 hours but not more than one thousand eight hundred nineteen hours in one 40 twelve-month period. 41 5. Definition. For purposes of this section, "municipality" means any 42 county, city, town, village or school district. 43 § 2. This act shall take effect on the same date and in the same 44 manner as section 2 of part PP of chapter 56 of the laws of 2022, takes 45 effect; and shall expire and be deemed repealed January 1, 2027.
