Bill Text: NY S01165 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced
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Bill Title: Provides additional credits to children and siblings of New York city sanitation members who died in the performance of duty as the natural and proximate result of the World Trade Center attack on September 11, 2001.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2025-02-11 - PRINT NUMBER 1165A [S01165 Detail]
Download: New_York-2025-S01165-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Provides additional credits to children and siblings of New York city sanitation members who died in the performance of duty as the natural and proximate result of the World Trade Center attack on September 11, 2001.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2025-02-11 - PRINT NUMBER 1165A [S01165 Detail]
Download: New_York-2025-S01165-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1165 2025-2026 Regular Sessions IN SENATE January 8, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sen. JACKSON -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Civil Service and Pensions AN ACT to amend the civil service law, in relation to providing addi- tional credits to children and siblings of deceased New York city sanitation members The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The civil service law is amended by adding a new section 2 85-d to read as follows: 3 § 85-d. Additional credits allowed the children and siblings of New 4 York city sanitation members killed in the line of duty. 1. Definitions. 5 (a) As used in this section, "killed in the line of duty" shall mean 6 having died in the performance of duty as the natural and proximate 7 result of the World Trade Center attack on September eleventh, two thou- 8 sand one or as the natural and proximate result of participation in the 9 rescue effort that was conducted in response to such attack. 10 (b) As used in this section "New York city sanitation member" shall 11 mean a sanitation member as defined in subdivision sixty-four of section 12 13-101 of the administrative code of the city of New York. 13 2. Additional credit authorized. Additional credits shall be allowed 14 to children and siblings of New York city sanitation members killed in 15 the line of duty in competitive examinations for original appointment. 16 (a) On all eligible lists resulting from competitive examinations, the 17 names of eligible persons shall be entered in the order of their respec- 18 tive final earned ratings on examinations, with the name of the eligible 19 person with the highest final earned ratings at the head of such list; 20 provided, however, that for the purpose of determining final earned 21 ratings, children and siblings of New York city sanitation members 22 killed in the line of duty shall be entitled to receive an additional 23 ten points in a competitive examination for original appointment in the EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD03851-01-5S. 1165 2 1 same municipality in which such child or sibling's parent or sibling has 2 served. 3 (b) Such additional credit shall be added to the final earned rating 4 of such child or sibling, as the case may be, after such child or 5 sibling has qualified in the competitive examination and shall be grant- 6 ed only at the time of establishment of the resulting eligible list. 7 3. Application for additional credit; proof of eligibility; establish- 8 ment of eligible list. Any candidate, believing that such candidate is 9 entitled to additional credit in a competitive examination as provided 10 in this section, may make application for such additional credit at any 11 time between the date of such candidate's application for examination 12 and the date of the establishment of the resulting eligible list. Such 13 candidates shall be allowed a period of not less than two months from 14 the date of the filing of their application for examination in which to 15 establish by appropriate documentary proof such candidate's eligibility 16 to receive additional credit under this section. At any time after two 17 months have elapsed since the final date for filing applications for a 18 competitive examination for original appointment, the eligible list 19 resulting from such examination may be established, notwithstanding the 20 fact that a child or sibling who has applied for additional credit has 21 failed to establish such child or sibling's eligibility to receive such 22 additional credit. A candidate who fails to establish, by appropriate 23 documentary proof, such candidate's eligibility to receive additional 24 credit by the time an eligible list is established shall not thereafter 25 be granted additional credit on such eligible list. 26 4. Use of additional credit. (a) Except as otherwise provided in this 27 subdivision, no person who has received a permanent original appointment 28 in the civil service of the state or of any city or civil division ther- 29 eof from an eligible list on which such person was allowed the addi- 30 tional credit granted by this section as a child or sibling, shall ther- 31 eafter be entitled to any additional credit under this section as a 32 child or sibling. 33 (b) Where, at the time of establishment of an eligible list, the posi- 34 tion of a child or sibling on such list has not been affected by the 35 addition of credits granted under this section, the appointment of such 36 child or sibling from such eligible list shall not be deemed to have 37 been made from an eligible list on which such child or sibling was 38 allowed the additional credit granted by this section. 39 (c) If, at the time of appointment from an eligible list, a child or 40 sibling is in the same relative standing among the eligible persons who 41 are willing to accept appointment as if such child or sibling had not 42 been granted the additional credits as provided by this section, such 43 child or sibling's appointment from such eligible persons shall not be 44 deemed to have been made from an eligible list on which such child or 45 sibling was allowed such additional credits. 46 (d) Where a child or sibling has been originally appointed from an 47 eligible list on which such child or sibling was allowed such additional 48 credit, but such appointment is thereafter terminated either at the end 49 of the probationary term or by resignation at or before the end of the 50 probationary term, such child or sibling shall not be deemed to have 51 been appointed, as the case may be, from an eligible list on which such 52 child or sibling is allowed additional credit, and such appointment 53 shall not affect such child or sibling's eligibility for additional 54 credit in other examinations. 55 5. Withdrawal of application; election to relinquish additional cred- 56 it. An application for additional credit in a competitive examinationS. 1165 3 1 under this section may be withdrawn by the applicant at any time prior 2 to the establishment of the resulting eligible list. At any time during 3 the term of existence of an eligible list resulting from a competitive 4 examination in which a child or sibling has received the additional 5 credit granted by this section, such child or sibling may elect, prior 6 to permanent original appointment, to relinquish the additional credit 7 theretofore granted to such child or sibling and accept the lower posi- 8 tion on such eligible list to which such child or sibling would other- 9 wise have been entitled; provided, however, that such election shall 10 thereafter be irrevocable. Such election shall be in writing and signed 11 by the child or sibling, and transmitted to the department or the appro- 12 priate municipal civil service commission. 13 6. Roster. The department and each municipal commission shall estab- 14 lish and maintain in its office a roster of all such children and 15 siblings appointed as a result of additional credits granted by this 16 section to positions under its jurisdiction. The appointment of a child 17 or sibling as a result of additional credits shall be void if such child 18 or sibling, prior to such appointment, had been appointed as a result of 19 additional credits granted by this section. 20 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
