Bill Text: NJ A1873 | 2016-2017 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Allows person on police officer or firefighter eligible list who is unable to complete requirements for employment due to certain military service to have name placed on subsequent eligible list.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 11-3)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2017-05-25 - Received in the Senate, Referred to Senate State Government, Wagering, Tourism & Historic Preservation Committee [A1873 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2016-A1873-Amended.html

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[First Reprint]

ASSEMBLY, No. 1873

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

217th LEGISLATURE

 

PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2016 SESSION

 

 

Sponsored by:

Assemblyman  BENJIE E. WIMBERLY

District 35 (Bergen and Passaic)

Assemblyman  TROY SINGLETON

District 7 (Burlington)

Assemblywoman  SHAVONDA E. SUMTER

District 35 (Bergen and Passaic)

Assemblywoman  ANGELICA M. JIMENEZ

District 32 (Bergen and Hudson)

 

Co-Sponsored by:

Assemblymen DeAngelo, Coughlin and Webber

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Allows person on police officer or firefighter eligible list who is unable to complete requirements for employment due to certain military service to have name placed on subsequent eligible list.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     As reported by the Assembly State and Local Government Committee on January 19, 2017, with amendments.

  

An Act concerning certain civil service lists for the position of police officer or firefighter and supplementing Title 11A of the New Jersey Statutes.

 

     Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:

 

     1.    Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law or rule or regulation to the contrary, any person who heretofore received or hereafter receives a passing score on an open competitive examination for the position of police officer or firefighter and whose name appeared or appears on an eligible list for that position but who was unable or is unable to complete any other requirements for employment because of active duty of at least 30 ¹[days] days'¹ continuous duration in the National Guard or a reserve component of the Armed Forces of the United States, on or after September 11, 2001 and ¹[prior to] on or before December 28, 2014, known as Operation Enduring Freedom, and on or after January 1, 2015 and on or before¹ the date designated by the President of the United States or the United States Secretary of Defense as the termination date of ¹[operation "Enduring Freedom,"] Operation Freedom's Sentinel,¹ shall, following expiration of that list, have the person's name placed in order by score on a subsequent eligible list, designated by the person, for the same type of position. Any such person who shall have met the maximum age requirement for a position at the announced closing date of the civil service examination from which the first list of eligibles is or was compiled shall be deemed to have met such maximum age requirement on the date that the person's name is placed on a subsequent eligible list.

 

     2.    This act shall take effect immediately.