Bill Text: NY A03427 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Allows salary and civil service exam credits for police officers in certain cities and property tax credits for resident officers and student loan forgiveness program for certain police officers.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-05-24 - held for consideration in governmental employees [A03427 Detail]
Download: New_York-2015-A03427-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 3427--A 2015-2016 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 22, 2015 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. COOK, MARKEY -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. MILLER -- read once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Employees -- recommitted to the Committee on Governmental Employees in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit- tee AN ACT to amend the general municipal law and the civil service law, in relation to salary and civil service exam credits for police officers in certain cities; to amend the tax law and the real property tax law, in relation to establishing certain tax credits for resident police officers; and to amend the education law, in relation to the police officer loan forgiveness program The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The general municipal law is amended by adding a new 2 section 207-r to read as follows: 3 § 207-r. Salaries of police officers who are residents of certain 4 cities. A city with a population of one hundred thousand or more is 5 hereby authorized to adopt a local law to provide that the salary of a 6 police officer of such city who is a resident thereof shall be increased 7 by an amount of five percent or more of such officer's base salary. 8 § 2. Section 58 of the civil service law is amended by adding a new 9 subdivision 7 to read as follows: 10 7. (a) A city with a population of one hundred thousand or more is 11 authorized to adopt a local law which would grant residents of such city 12 additional credits in competitive examinations for original appointment 13 as a police officer pursuant to this section. 14 (b) In the event of the enactment of a local law pursuant to paragraph 15 (a) of this subdivision, on an eligible list resulting from a compet- 16 itive examination for original appointment as a police officer, the 17 names of the eligible shall be entered in the order of their respective EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD06775-03-6
