STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5864
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 20, 2019
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by M. of A. LALOR -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Governmental Employees
        AN ACT to authorize the commissioner of the department of civil  service
          to  reinstate  Frank  Pallett  on  the eligible civil service list for
          employment as a State University of New York police officer
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Notwithstanding the provisions of section 58 of the civil
     2  service law or any other provision of law to the contrary, Frank Pallett
     3  of Wappingers Falls, New York, who was eligible to  sit  for  the  civil
     4  service  exam  for police officers on November 16, 2013 and was eligible
     5  for employment as a State University of New York police officer at  that
     6  time,  and who took and passed said exam on November 16, 2013, and whose
     7  name appeared on the next civil service eligible list, and who is now no
     8  longer deemed eligible for employment as a State University of New  York
     9  police  officer due to change in the law that was implemented by chapter
    10  561 of the laws of 2015 which amended section 58 of  the  civil  service
    11  law to include State University of New York police officers in the defi-
    12  nition  of police officers subject to a thirty-five year old maximum age
    13  limit, shall be exempt from said thirty-five year old maximum age  limit
    14  and  shall  be eligible for employment as a State University of New York
    15  police officer. Frank Pallett shall otherwise be subject  to  the  merit
    16  and fitness provisions of the civil service laws applicable to full-time
    17  police officers.
    18    §  2.  The commissioner of the department of civil service shall rein-
    19  state Frank Pallett on the eligible civil  service  list,  without  lost
    20  rank  or  seniority, provided Mr. Pallett files a request to that effect
    21  with the state comptroller by January 1, 2020.   Any such  reinstatement
    22  shall be effective immediately.
    23    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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