A6516 • 2025

Requires employers to provide paid leave of absence to veterans on Veterans' day

Labor

Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor: Amanda Septimo
Last action: 2026-05-22
Official status: In Assembly Committee
Effective date: Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Requires employers to provide paid leave of absence to veterans on Veterans' day

Requires employers to provide paid leave of absence to veterans on Veterans' day Requires employers to offer paid leave of absence to veterans on Veterans' day, except for emergency or critical employees, who shall be offered another day of paid leave.

What This Bill Does

Requires employers to provide paid leave of absence to veterans on Veterans' day Requires employers to offer paid leave of absence to veterans on Veterans' day, except for emergency or critical employees, who shall be offered another day of paid leave.

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Bill History

2026-05-22 Assembly
AMEND (T) AND RECOMMIT TO LABOR
2026-05-22 Assembly
PRINT NUMBER 6516A
2026-01-07 Assembly
REFERRED TO LABOR
2025-03-05 Assembly
REFERRED TO LABOR

Official Summary Text

Requires employers to provide paid leave of absence to veterans on Veterans' day
Requires employers to offer paid leave of absence to veterans on Veterans' day, except for emergency or critical employees, who shall be offered another day of paid leave.

Current Bill Text

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S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                          6516

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                                  I N  A S S E M B L Y

                                      March 5, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. SEPTIMO -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Labor

        AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation  to  requiring  employers  to
          offer paid leave to veteran employees on Veterans' day

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

     1    Section 1. The labor law is amended by adding a new section  219-e  to
     2  read as follows:
     3    § 219-E. LEAVE OF ABSENCE FOR VETERANS ON VETERANS' DAY. EVERY EMPLOY-
     4  ER IN THIS STATE SHALL OFFER A LEAVE OF ABSENCE WITH PAY FOR TWENTY-FOUR
     5  HOURS  ON THE ELEVENTH DAY OF NOVEMBER, KNOWN AS VETERANS' DAY, TO EVERY
     6  EMPLOYEE WHO IS A VETERAN, AS DEFINED BY SUBDIVISION  THREE  OF  SECTION
     7  ONE  OF  THE  VETERANS' SERVICES LAW, AND HAS RECEIVED A DISCHARGE OTHER
     8  THAN BAD CONDUCT OR DISHONORABLE FROM SUCH SERVICE,  EXCEPT  WHERE  SUCH
     9  ACTION  WOULD ENDANGER THE PUBLIC SAFETY OR SUCH EMPLOYER HAS DESIGNATED
    10  SUCH EMPLOYEE AS A CRITICAL EMPLOYEE, IN WHICH EVENT SUCH  PERSON  SHALL
    11  BE ENTITLED TO LEAVE OF ABSENCE WITH PAY ON ANOTHER DAY IN LIEU THEREOF.
    12    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD06990-01-5