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NY A01951
Bill
Status
1/12/2011
Primary Sponsor
Robert Castelli
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AI Summary
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Establishes a recruitment incentive and retention program providing tuition assistance to active members of the New York Army National Guard, Air National Guard, and Naval Militia, expanding eligibility to include graduate degree programs.
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Creates a Veterans Recruiter Assistants Program offering up to $500 recruiting incentive awards to veterans who facilitate first-time enlistment into the New York National Guard, with half paid at enlistment and half at completion of basic training.
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Allows state employees up to 49 days per year of paid military duty leave for reserve training and instruction, and permits county and municipal employees the same at employer discretion, separate from vacation time.
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Grants full pension credit to members of public retirement systems called to active duty from September 11, 2001 onward with any branch of the U.S. Armed Forces or New York National Guard, crediting them as if employed full-time during service.
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Authorizes counties, cities, towns, and villages to allow veterans not yet discharged from current military service to receive both available property tax exemptions simultaneously.
Legislative Description
Enacts the service members recruitment and retention act of 2011; provides a recruitment incentive and retention program for certain active members of the New York army national guard, New York air national guard, and New York naval militia; creates the veterans recruiter assistant's program; allows state, county and municipal employees to be compensated for up to 49 days of military deployment per year; relates to the service credit time of military personnel; relates to veteran eligibility for real property tax exemptions.
Last Action
referred to veterans' affairs
1/4/2012