Bill Text: NY A04941 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to certain veterans and entitles them to 10 additional competitive civil service exam points if they are disabled and entitles them to 5 additional competitive civil service exam points if they are non-disabled and if they received certain medals or ribbons.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - referred to veterans' affairs [A04941 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A04941-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4941
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 6, 2017
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        Introduced  by  M.  of A. RAMOS, TITONE -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Veterans' Affairs
        AN ACT to amend the civil service  law,  in  relation  to  veterans  and
          competitive civil service exam points
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1.  Paragraph (a) of subdivision 1 of section 85 of the  civil
     2  service  law,  as amended by chapter 333 of the laws of 1993, is amended
     3  to read as follows:
     4    (a) The terms "veteran" and "non-disabled veteran" mean:
     5    (1) a member of the armed forces of the United States who served ther-
     6  ein in time of war, who  was  honorably  discharged  or  released  under
     7  honorable  circumstances  from  such  service,  who  is a citizen of the
     8  United States or an alien lawfully admitted for permanent  residence  in
     9  the  United States and who is a resident of the state of New York at the
    10  time of application for appointment or  promotion  or  at  the  time  of
    11  retention, as the case may be; or
    12    (2)  a  member of the armed forces of the United States who was honor-
    13  ably discharged or released  under  honorable  circumstances  from  such
    14  service,  who  is  a  citizen  of the United States or an alien lawfully
    15  admitted for permanent residence in the United States, who is a resident
    16  of the state of New York at the time of application for  appointment  or
    17  promotion  or  at the time of retention, as the case may be, and who was
    18  awarded either a: (i) Combat  Action  Ribbon,  (ii)  Combat  Infantryman
    19  Badge,  (iii) Combat Medical Badge, (iv) Combat Action Badge, (v) Combat
    20  Recognition Ribbon, or (vi) Air Force Combat Action medal.
    21    § 2.  Subparagraph 1 of paragraph (a) of subdivision 2 of  section  85
    22  of  the  civil service law, as added by chapter 790 of the laws of 1958,
    23  is amended to read as follows:
    24    (1) Disabled veterans shall be entitled to receive  ten  points  addi-
    25  tional  credit in a competitive examination for original appointment and
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  five  points  additional  credit  in  a  competitive   examination   for
     2  promotion, and
     3    § 3. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 1 of section 85 of the civil service
     4  law is amended by adding a new subparagraph 4 to read as follows:
     5    (4) A veteran who is certified by the United States veterans' adminis-
     6  tration  or  a  military  department  as  entitled to receive disability
     7  payments upon certification of such veterans' administration or a  mili-
     8  tary department for a disability incurred by him or her in the course of
     9  his  or  her time of service and in existence at the time of application
    10  for appointment or promotion or at the time of retention,  as  the  case
    11  may  be,  and  who  was awarded either a: (i) Combat Action Ribbon, (ii)
    12  Combat Infantryman Badge, (iii) Combat Medical Badge, (iv) Combat Action
    13  Badge, (v) Combat Recognition Ribbon, or (vi) Air  Force  Combat  Action
    14  medal.
    15    § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.