Bill Text: NY A02378 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides that candidates who have provided firefighting service may deduct up to a maximum of six years from their age for purposes of meeting the age requirements.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 9-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to governmental employees [A02378 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A02378-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          2378

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 26, 2023
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        Introduced  by  M. of A. ANGELINO, DeSTEFANO, LEMONDES, MANKTELOW, McDO-
          NOUGH, MIKULIN, MILLER, MORINELLO -- read once  and  referred  to  the
          Committee on Governmental Employees

        AN ACT to amend the civil service law, in relation to age eligibility of
          candidates  for  promotion to provisional or permanent appointments as
          police officers

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

     1    Section  1. Section 58 of the civil service law is amended by adding a
     2  new subdivision 7 to read as follows:
     3    7. The maximum age requirement established in subdivision one of  this
     4  section, for examination or for appointment or promotion to, such provi-
     5  sional  or  permanent appointment of certain police officers, the period
     6  of service as a volunteer firefighter as such is defined by  the  duties
     7  and  activities  described  in  subdivision  one  of section five of the
     8  volunteer firefighters' benefit law and the same such duties and  activ-
     9  ities  performed  for  a  specialized  team  established pursuant to the
    10  provisions of section two hundred nine-bb of the general  municipal  law
    11  for which the volunteer firefighter does not receive any remuneration or
    12  a  gratuity,  if  such  service otherwise falls within the definition of
    13  service as a firefighter, of  a  candidate  or  eligible  shall  not  be
    14  included  in  computing  the  age  of such candidate or eligible for the
    15  purposes of such examination  or  appointment  or  promotion;  provided,
    16  however, that neither shall the total time deducted hereunder in comput-
    17  ing the age of a candidate or eligible exceed six years.
    18    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD06446-01-3