New York S 6005: Establishes the hire a vet grant program

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S06005 Summary:

BILL NOS06005 

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SAME ASSAME AS A00401

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SPONSORBASKIN

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COSPNSRADDABBO

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MLTSPNSR

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Add §36, Veterans' Services L

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Establishes the hire a vet grant program; provides grants to municipalities where a veteran is hired and employed, for not less than twelve continuous and uninterrupted months in a full-time or part-time position.

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BILL NOS06005 

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03/04/2025REFERRED TO VETERANS, HOMELAND SECURITY AND MILITARY AFFAIRS

05/28/2025REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE

01/07/2026REFERRED TO VETERANS, HOMELAND SECURITY AND MILITARY AFFAIRS

03/17/2026REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 6005

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 March 4, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sen. BASKIN -- 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 veterans' services 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 veterans' services law is amended by adding a new
 2 section 36 to read as follows:
 3 § 36. Hire a vet grant. 1. Allowance of grant. A municipality shall be
 4 allowed a grant equivalent to the credit provided to eligible taxpayers
 5 in the "hire a vet credit" as established in subdivision twenty-nine of
 6 section two hundred ten-B of the tax law, where such municipality hires
 7 and employs, for not less than twelve continuous and uninterrupted
 8 months (hereinafter referred to as the "twelve-month period") in a full-
 9 time or part-time position, a qualified veteran within the state. The
 10 municipality may claim the grant in the year in which the qualified
 11 veteran completes the twelve-month period of employment with the munici-
 12 pality.
 13 2. Qualified veteran. A qualified veteran is an individual:
 14 (a) who served on active duty in the United States army, navy, air
 15 force, space force, marine corps, coast guard or the reserves thereof,
 16 or who served in active military service of the United States as a
 17 member of the army national guard, air national guard, New York guard or
 18 New York naval militia, or who served in the active uniformed services
 19 of the United States as a member of the commissioned corps of the
 20 national oceanic and atmospheric administration or the commissioned
 21 corps of the United States public health service; who (i) was released
 22 from active duty by general or honorable discharge; or (ii) has a quali-
 23 fying condition, as defined in section one of this chapter, and has

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD01512-01-5

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 1 received a discharge other than bad conduct or dishonorable from such
 2 service; or (iii) is a discharged LGBT veteran, as defined in section
 3 one of this chapter, and has received a discharge other than bad conduct
 4 or dishonorable from such service;
 5 (b) who commences employment with the municipality on or after January
 6 first, two thousand twenty-six, and before January first, two thousand
 7 twenty-eight; and
 8 (c) who certifies by signed affidavit, under penalty of perjury, that
 9 such individual has not been employed for thirty-five or more hours
 10 during any week in the one hundred eighty-day period immediately prior
 11 to such individual's employment by the municipality.
 12 3. Prohibition. A municipality shall not discharge an employee and
 13 hire a qualifying veteran solely for the purpose of qualifying for this
 14 grant. This section shall not be deemed to amend, modify or supersede
 15 any other law which prescribes the qualifications which a person must
 16 have to be appointed to a position subject to the civil service law.
 17 4. Amount of grant. (a) The amount of the grant shall be fifteen
 18 percent of the total amount of wa