PRINTER'S NO. 3079
No. 2239 Session of 2001
INTRODUCED BY SOLOBAY, ARMSTRONG, BEBKO-JONES, BELARDI,
BELFANTI, CAPPELLI, CORRIGAN, COY, CREIGHTON, DeWEESE,
GEORGE, HENNESSEY, HORSEY, LAUGHLIN, LEDERER, LEH, LESCOVITZ,
MANN, MAYERNIK, McCALL, McGEEHAN, MELIO, MUNDY, ROONEY,
SATHER, STABACK, E. Z. TAYLOR, VEON, WOJNAROSKI, STEELMAN,
YUDICHAK, JOSEPHS, YOUNGBLOOD, SHANER, PETRARCA AND JAMES,
DECEMBER 12, 2001
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON VETERANS AFFAIRS AND EMERGENCY
PREPAREDNESS, DECEMBER 12, 2001
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 51 (Military Affairs) of the Pennsylvania
2 Consolidated Statutes, further providing for granting of
3 military leaves of absence.
4 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
5 hereby enacts as follows:
6 Section 1. Section 7302 of Title 51 of the Pennsylvania
7 Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:
8 § 7302. Granting military leaves of absence.
9 (a) Enlistment or draft.--Whenever any employee shall, in
10 time of war or armed conflict, or emergency proclaimed by the
11 Governor or by the President of the United States, enlist or
12 shall, at any time, be drafted into the active military service
13 of the United States, he shall be automatically granted a
14 military leave of absence. So long as an employee is on military
15 leave of absence, he shall not be removed from his employment
1 and his duties shall either be performed by other employees or
2 by a temporary substitute. During such time he may receive
3 remuneration from his civilian employer.
4 (b) Reserve components.--Whenever any employee who is a
5 member of a reserve component of the armed forces shall be
6 called or ordered to active duty by the United States and
7 whenever any employee who is a member of the Pennsylvania
8 National Guard shall be ordered to active State duty or special
9 State duty by the Governor or his designee, he shall
10 automatically be granted a military leave of absence. During
11 such time he shall receive remuneration from his employer equal
12 to the difference between his civilian wages and his military
13 wages.
14 Section 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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