Bill Text: NY A08282 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Specifies that in calculating the age requirement applicable to appointments or promotions of public employees in cities with a population of one million or more, the total time deducted for absent military duty in computing the age of a candidate or eligible shall not exceed seven years.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)

Status: (Passed) 2019-11-11 - signed chap.484 [A08282 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A08282-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8282

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      June 12, 2019
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        Introduced by M. of A. ABBATE -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Governmental Employees

        AN ACT to amend the military law, in relation to age requirements appli-
          cable to appointments or promotions of public employees in cities with
          a  population  of one million or more who have been absent on military
          duty

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

     1    Section  1.  Subdivision  10-a  of section 243 of the military law, as
     2  amended by chapter 278 of the laws  of  1994,  is  amended  to  read  as
     3  follows:
     4    10-a. Age requirements. If maximum age requirements are established by
     5  law,  or rule or by action of a civil commission for examination for, or
     6  for appointment or promotion to, any position in the public service, the
     7  period of military duty as hereinbefore defined, the period  of  service
     8  after  June  twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred fifty, voluntarily entered
     9  upon between January first, nineteen hundred forty-seven, and June twen-
    10  ty-seventh, nineteen hundred fifty,  if  such  service  otherwise  falls
    11  within the definition of military duty, and the period of terminal leave
    12  granted by the military authorities of a candidate or eligible shall not
    13  be  included  in computing the age of such candidate or eligible for the
    14  purposes of such examination  or  appointment  or  promotion;  provided,
    15  however, that neither shall the total time deducted hereunder in comput-
    16  ing  the age of a candidate or eligible exceed six years, except that in
    17  cities with a population of one million or more, the total time deducted
    18  shall not exceed seven years.
    19    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13318-01-9