Bill Text: NY A08949 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Increases the age of eligibility for provisional or permanent appointment of certain police officers from thirty-five to forty.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Introduced) 2024-04-12 - print number 8949a [A08949 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-A08949-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 8949--A IN ASSEMBLY January 30, 2024 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. McDONALD, SHIMSKY, GUNTHER, LUCAS, TAYLOR, SEAWRIGHT, WILLIAMS, BICHOTTE HERMELYN, DAVILA, LEVENBERG, COOK, SEPTIMO, WOERNER, STECK -- read once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Employees -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the civil service law, in relation to increasing the age of eligibility for provisional or permanent appointment of certain police officers from thirty-five to forty 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 58 of the civil 2 service law, as amended by chapter 244 of the laws of 2013, is amended 3 to read as follows: 4 (a) he or she is not less than twenty years of age as of the date of 5 appointment nor more than [thirty-five] forty years of age as of the 6 date when the applicant takes the written examination, provided that the 7 maximum age requirement of [thirty-five] forty years of age as set forth 8 in this paragraph shall not apply to eligible lists finalized pursuant 9 to an examination administered prior to May thirty-first, nineteen 10 hundred ninety-nine or a police officer in the department of environ- 11 mental conservation, provided, however, that: 12 (i) time spent on military duty or on terminal leave, not exceeding a 13 total of six years, shall be subtracted from the age of any applicant 14 who has passed his or her [thirty-fifth] fortieth birthday as provided 15 in subdivision ten-a of section two hundred forty-three of the military 16 law; 17 (ii) such maximum age requirement of [thirty-five] forty years shall 18 not apply to any police officer as defined in subdivision thirty-four of 19 section 1.20 of the criminal procedure law, who was continuously 20 employed by the Buffalo municipal housing authority between January 21 first, two thousand five and June thirtieth, two thousand five and who 22 takes the next written exam offered after the effective date of this 23 subparagraph by the city of Buffalo civil service commission for employ- EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD14061-03-4A. 8949--A 2 1 ment as a police officer in the city of Buffalo police department, or 2 June thirtieth, two thousand six, whichever is later; and 3 (iii) such maximum age requirement of [thirty-five] forty years shall 4 not apply to any police officer of any county, town, city or village 5 police force not otherwise provided for in this section if the eligible 6 list has been exhausted and there are no other eligible candidates; 7 provided, however, the police officer themselves are on the eligible 8 list of such county, town, city or village and meet all other require- 9 ments of merit and fitness set forth by this chapter and do not exceed 10 the maximum age of [thirty-nine] forty-four; 11 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.