Bill Text: NY A08785 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Allows additional credits for children or siblings of firefighters, police officers, emergency medical technicians, or paramedics killed in the administrative line of duty.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to governmental employees [A08785 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A08785-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8785

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    November 25, 2019
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        Introduced by M. of A. D'URSO -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Governmental Employees

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the civil service law, in relation to allowing addi-
          tional credits for children and siblings of firefighters, police offi-
          cers, emergency medical  technicians,  or  paramedics  killed  in  the
          administrative line of duty

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

     1    Section 1. The section heading and subdivision 1 of  section  85-a  of
     2  the  civil  service  law, as amended by chapter 376 of the laws of 2013,
     3  are amended to read as follows:
     4    Additional credits allowed children [and] or siblings of firefighters,
     5  police officers, emergency medical technicians and paramedics killed  in
     6  the line of duty or killed in the administrative line of duty.  1. Addi-
     7  tional  credit authorized.  Additional credits shall be allowed children
     8  and siblings of firefighters, police officers, emergency medical techni-
     9  cians [and] or paramedics killed in the line of duty or  killed  in  the
    10  administrative line of duty, as "child" and "sibling" in this section in
    11  competitive  examinations  for original appointment. (a) On all eligible
    12  lists resulting from competitive examinations,  the  names  of  eligible
    13  persons  shall  be entered in the order of their respective final earned
    14  ratings on examinations, with the name of the eligible person  with  the
    15  highest  final earned ratings at the head of such list, provided, howev-
    16  er, that for the purpose of determining final earned  ratings,  children
    17  and siblings of firefighters, police officers, emergency medical techni-
    18  cians  [and]  or  paramedics killed in the line of duty or killed in the
    19  administrative line of duty shall be entitled to receive  an  additional
    20  ten  points in a competitive examination for original appointment in the
    21  same municipality in which his or her parent or sibling has served.  For
    22  the  purposes  of  this  paragraph,  a police officer [or], firefighter,
    23  emergency medical technician, or  paramedic  shall  be  deemed  to  have

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13329-03-9
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     1  "served"  in  a  municipality  if  he  or she was employed by, or worked
     2  primarily in, that municipality.   For the  purposes  of  this  section,
     3  "killed  in  the  administrative line of duty" shall mean having died in
     4  the  performance of duty or following the performance of duty where such
     5  performance of duty was the natural and proximate cause of death.
     6    (b) Such additional credit shall be added to the final  earned  rating
     7  of such child or sibling, as the case may be, after he or she has quali-
     8  fied  in  the  competitive  examination and shall be granted only at the
     9  time of establishment of the resulting eligible list.
    10    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.