Bill Text: NY S04902 | 2019-2020 | 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: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 8-2)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO VETERANS, HOMELAND SECURITY AND MILITARY AFFAIRS [S04902 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S04902-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4902
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                     March 29, 2019
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        Introduced  by  Sens.  RANZENHOFER, ADDABBO, AKSHAR, CARLUCCI, GALLIVAN,
          LITTLE, RITCHIE, SERINO, SEWARD -- 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 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 executive law is amended by adding a new section  369-f
     2  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 nineteen; 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
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03933-02-9
        S. 4902                             2
     1  week in the one hundred eighty day period immediately prior  to  his  or
     2  her employment by the municipality.
     3    3.  Prohibition.  A  municipality  shall not discharge an employee and
     4  hire a qualifying veteran solely for the purpose of qualifying for  this
     5  grant.
     6    4.  Amount  of  grant. The amount of the grant shall be ten percent of
     7  the total amount of wages paid  to  the  qualified  veteran  during  the
     8  veteran's first full year of employment. Provided, however, that, if the
     9  qualified  veteran is a disabled veteran, as defined in paragraph (b) of
    10  subdivision one of section eighty-five of the  civil  service  law,  the
    11  amount  of  the  grant  shall  be fifteen percent of the total amount of
    12  wages paid to the qualified veteran during the veteran's first full year
    13  of employment. The grant allowed pursuant to this subdivision shall  not
    14  exceed  in any year, five thousand dollars for any qualified veteran and
    15  fifteen thousand dollars for any qualified veteran  who  is  a  disabled
    16  veteran.
    17    5. Definitions. For purposes of this section, "municipality" means any
    18  county, city, town, village or school district.
    19    §  2.  This  act shall take effect immediately and shall expire and be
    20  deemed repealed January 1, 2024.