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Senate Bill S9217

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Authorizes additional paid leave for public employees who are absent on military duty

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2025-S9217 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A10202
Current Committee:
Senate Finance
Law Section:
Military Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §242, Mil L

2025-S9217 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Authorizes additional paid leave for public employees who are absent on military duty up to sixty days or fifty-two working days.

2025-S9217 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S9217 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   9217
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 17, 2026
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by Sen. SCARCELLA-SPANTON -- read twice and ordered printed,
   and when printed to be committed to the Committee on  Veterans,  Home-
   land Security and Military Affairs
 
 AN  ACT to amend the military law, in relation to authorizing additional
   paid leave for public employees who are absent on military duty
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 5 of section 242 of the mili-
 tary law, as amended by chapter 406 of the laws of 2017, is  amended  to
 read as follows:
   (a)  Every public officer or employee shall be paid [his or her] THEIR
 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] FIFTY-TWO work-
 ing days, whichever is greater, in any one calendar year and not exceed-
 ing [thirty] SIXTY days or [twenty-two] FIFTY-TWO working days, whichev-
 er is greater, in any one continuous period of such absence.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD07300-01-5

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