Bill Text: NY S05913 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Permits veterans to purchase military service credit for service rendered in the Iranian hostage crisis.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-01-04 - REFERRED TO CIVIL SERVICE AND PENSIONS [S05913 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-S05913-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         5913
                              2011-2012 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                   October 19, 2011
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       Introduced  by  Sen. ADDABBO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
         printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
       AN ACT to amend the retirement and social security law, in  relation  to
         permitting  the  purchase  of military service rendered in the Iranian
         hostage crisis
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1. Paragraphs (c) and (d) of subdivision 2 of section 1000 of
    2  the retirement and social security law, as added by chapter 548  of  the
    3  laws  of  2000,  are amended and a new paragraph (e) is added to read as
    4  follows:
    5    (c) hostilities participated in by the military forces of  the  United
    6  States  in  Panama, from the twentieth day of December, nineteen hundred
    7  eighty-nine to the thirty-first day of January, nineteen hundred ninety,
    8  as established by receipt of the armed forces expeditionary  medal,  the
    9  navy expeditionary medal, or the marine corps expeditionary medal; [or]
   10    (d)  hostilities  participated in by the military forces of the United
   11  States, from the second day of August, nineteen hundred ninety,  to  the
   12  end  of  such hostilities in case of a veteran who served in the theater
   13  of operations including Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar,  the
   14  United  Arab  Emirates,  Oman,  the  Gulf of Aden, the Gulf of Oman, the
   15  Persian Gulf, the Red Sea, and the airspace above these locations[.]; OR
   16    (E) HOSTILITIES PARTICIPATED IN BY THE MILITARY FORCES OF  THE  UNITED
   17  STATES,  FROM  THE FOURTH DAY OF NOVEMBER, NINETEEN HUNDRED SEVENTY-NINE
   18  TO THE TWENTIETH DAY OF JANUARY, NINETEEN  HUNDRED  EIGHTY-ONE,  IN  THE
   19  CASE OF A VETERAN WHO SERVED IN THE IRANIAN HOSTAGE CRISIS.
   20    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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