Bill Text: NY A05404 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Expand the entitlement to civil service exam credit of certain members of the United States armed forces who were disabled during service by eliminating the requirement that the service be wartime service and allowing the credit regardless of dates of service; changes the reference to the veterans administration to the department of veterans affairs; grants entitlement to such credit to such disabled members if they are eligible for disability payments from the department of veterans affairs (currently the disabled members must be actually receiving disability payments).
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-04-20 - enacting clause stricken [A05404 Detail]
Download: New_York-2011-A05404-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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5404
2011-2012 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
February 18, 2011
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Introduced by M. of A. TOWNS -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Governmental Employees
CONCURRENT RESOLUTION OF THE SENATE AND ASSEMBLY
proposing an amendment to section 6 of article 5 of the constitution, in
relation to additional civil service credit for members of the armed
forces of the United States
1 Section 1. Resolved (if the Senate concur), That section 6 of article
2 5 of the constitution be amended to read as follows:
3 S 6. Appointments and promotions in the civil service of the state and
4 all of the civil divisions thereof, including cities and villages, shall
5 be made according to merit and fitness to be ascertained, as far as
6 practicable, by examination which, as far as practicable, shall be
7 competitive; provided, however, that any member of the armed forces of
8 the United States who served therein in time of war, and who, at the
9 time of such member's appointment or promotion, is a citizen or an alien
10 lawfully admitted for permanent residence in the United States and a
11 resident of this state and is honorably discharged or released under
12 honorable circumstances from such service, shall be entitled to receive
13 five points additional credit in a competitive examination for original
14 appointment and two and one-half points additional credit in an examina-
15 tion for promotion or, if [such] ANY member [was] OF THE ARMED FORCES OF
16 THE UNITED STATES IS disabled in the actual performance of duty [in any
17 war] REGARDLESS OF DATES OF SERVICE, is receiving OR IS ELIGIBLE FOR
18 disability payments therefor from the United States [veterans adminis-
19 tration] DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS, and his or her disability is
20 certified by such [administration] DEPARTMENT to be in existence at the
21 time of application for appointment or promotion, he or she shall be
22 entitled to receive ten points additional credit in a competitive exam-
23 ination for original appointment and five points additional credit in an
24 examination for promotion. Such additional credit shall be added to the
25 final earned rating of such member after he or she has qualified in an
26 examination and shall be granted only at the time of establishment of an
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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1 eligible list. No such member shall receive the additional credit grant-
2 ed by this section after he or she has received one appointment, either
3 original entrance or promotion, from an eligible list on which he or she
4 was allowed the additional credit granted by this section.
5 S 2. Resolved (if the Senate concur), That the foregoing amendments be
6 referred to the first regular legislative session convening after the
7 next succeeding general election of members of the assembly, and, in
8 conformity with section 1 of article 19 of the constitution, be
9 published for 3 months previous to the time of such election.
