Bill Text: NY A01105 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Waives New York state application fees for veterans who were honorably discharged or released under honorable circumstances from such service.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 31-9)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-06-21 - substituted by s946a [A01105 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-A01105-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1105--B 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 10, 2017 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. HUNTER, MAYER, ORTIZ, ENGLEBRIGHT, McDONALD, GJONAJ, RA, OAKS, BRABENEC -- read once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Employees -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee -- reported and referred to the Committee on Ways and Means -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the civil service law, in relation to the waiver of application fees for honorably discharged veterans The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 5 of section 50 of the civil 2 service law, as amended by chapter 449 of the laws of 2006, is amended 3 to read as follows: 4 (b) Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (a) of this subdivi- 5 sion, the state civil service department, subject to the approval of the 6 director of the budget, a municipal commission, subject to the approval 7 of the governing board or body of the city or county, as the case may 8 be, or a regional commission or personnel officer, pursuant to govern- 9 mental agreement, may elect to waive application fees, or to abolish 10 fees for specific classes of positions or types of examinations or 11 candidates, or to establish a uniform schedule of reasonable fees 12 different from those prescribed in paragraph (a) of this subdivision, 13 specifying in such schedule the classes of positions or types of exam- 14 inations or candidates to which such fees shall apply; provided, howev- 15 er, that fees shall be waived for candidates who certify to the state 16 civil service department, a municipal commission or a regional commis- 17 sion that they are unemployed and primarily responsible for the support 18 of a household, or are receiving public assistance. Provided further, 19 the state civil service department shall waive the state application fee 20 for examinations for original appointment for all veterans who were EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD01734-08-7A. 1105--B 2 1 honorably discharged or released under honorable circumstances from such 2 service. 3 § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall 4 have become a law.
