Grants public officers and employees up to 60 total days or 44 working days of paid leave for military ordered duty.

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S4440-2011 Actions

• Jun 6, 2012: REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE
• Jan 4, 2012: REFERRED TO VETERANS, HOMELAND SECURITY AND MILITARY AFFAIRS
• May 24, 2011: REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE
• Apr 5, 2011: REFERRED TO VETERANS, HOMELAND SECURITY AND MILITARY AFFAIRS

S4440-2011 Meetings

Veterans, Homeland Security and Military Affairs: May 24, 2011, Veterans, Homeland Security and Military Affairs: Jun 5, 2012

S4440-2011 Votes

S4440-2011 Memo

BILL NUMBER:S4440               REVISED 05/20/11

TITLE OF BILL:
An act
to amend the military law, in relation to granting public officers and
employees paid military leave for sixty total days or forty-four working
days

PURPOSE:
This legislation would amend the Military Law to extend the period of
time for which a public officer or employee shall be paid their salary
or other compensation during periods of absence while they are
engaged in the performance of ordered military duty not exceeding
sixty days or forty-four working days, whichever is greater.

SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:
This legislation would amend Section 242(5) of the Military Law to
increase paid leave when a public officer or employee is engaged in
the performance of military duty from thirty to sixty calendar days
and from twenty-two to forty-four working days, whichever is greater.

JUSTIFICATION:
Due to the war effort there are now thousands more National Guard and
Reserve personnel who require, and are undergoing military training.
This has extended the amount of time required to train military
personnel past the originally allotted 22 working days. However, the
MTA and most employers, refuse to honor anything past 22 working
days, and won't cover the increase in training hours, in their pay.
As a result, when an employee has exhausted both their calendar and
working day balances, the only way they can receive pay for ordered
military leave is to use up their vacation, AVA's and personal leave
days.

A solution to this problem would be to extend the currently covered
leave period, to something greater than 22 working days. This bill
would extend the current leave time from 22 working days to 44
working days, with a possible extension of up to 60 calendar days of
leave, whichever is greater.

This would, if enacted, ameliorate the current situation, where
members ordered to Military Duty, and who require more leave days for
military training, would receive adequate compensation.

LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:
New Bill.

FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:
To be determined.

EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect immediately.

S4440-2011 Text

                      S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
  ________________________________________________________________________

                                    4440

                         2011-2012 Regular Sessions

                              I N  SENATE

                                April 5, 2011
                                 ___________

  Introduced  by  Sen.  LARKIN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
    printed to be committed to the Committee on Veterans, Homeland Securi-
    ty and Military Affairs

  AN ACT to amend the military law, in relation to granting  public  offi-
    cers  and employees paid military leave for sixty total days or forty-
    four working days

    THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
  BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:


    Section  1.  Subdivision  5  of  section  242  of the military law, as
  amended by chapter 161 of the laws  of  1984,  is  amended  to  read  as
  follows:

    5.  Pay  for  military duty. Every public officer or employee shall be
  paid his salary or other compensation as such public officer or employee
  for any and all periods of absence while engaged in the  performance  of
  ordered  military duty, and while going to and returning from such duty,
  not exceeding a total of [thirty] SIXTY days or [twenty-two]  FORTY-FOUR
  working  days,  whichever  is  greater, in any one calendar year and not
  exceeding [thirty] SIXTY days or [twenty-two] FORTY-FOUR  working  days,
  whichever is greater, in any one continuous period of such absence.
    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.




   EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                        [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                             LBD10537-01-1