Bill Text: NY A07379 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Eliminates the "wartime service" requirement to expand the number of qualified veterans eligible for certain civil service positions.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2023-11-10 - signed chap.618 [A07379 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A07379-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7379

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      May 18, 2023
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        Introduced  by  M. of A. PHEFFER AMATO -- (at request of the Division of
          Veterans Services) -- read once  and  referred  to  the  Committee  on
          Governmental Employees

        AN  ACT  to  amend the civil service law, in relation to eliminating the
          "wartime service" requirement

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1. Subdivision 1 of section 55-c of the civil service law, as
     2  amended by chapter 340 of the laws  of  2008,  is  amended  to  read  as
     3  follows:
     4    1. The  commission  may  determine  up  to five hundred positions with
     5  duties such as can be performed by disabled veterans and  veterans  with
     6  disabilities who are found otherwise qualified to perform satisfactorily
     7  the duties of any such position. Upon such determination, the said posi-
     8  tions shall be classified in the noncompetitive class, and may be filled
     9  only  by  veterans  of the armed forces of the United States [who served
    10  therein during time of war, as defined in paragraph (c)  of  subdivision
    11  one  of  section  eighty-five of this chapter, and] (a) who establish by
    12  appropriate documentary evidence that they  are  disabled  veterans,  as
    13  defined  in  paragraph  (b) of subdivision one of section eighty-five of
    14  this chapter, or (b) by those veterans, as defined in paragraph  (a)  of
    15  subdivision  one  of section eighty-five of this chapter, who shall have
    16  been certified by the employee health service of the department as being
    17  disabled but capable of performing the duties of said positions.  Prior-
    18  ity in certification and referral of both  such  disabled  veterans  and
    19  certified disabled but capable veterans shall be given to those veterans
    20  who  received  a  wound  in combat, as documented by the awarding of the
    21  purple heart, as authorized by the United States department of  defense,
    22  and  that  wound is the cause of, or a substantially contributing factor
    23  to, the degree of impairment, who otherwise  meet  the  requirements  of
    24  this  section. The number of veterans appointed pursuant to this section
    25  shall not exceed five hundred.
    26    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

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