Bill Text: NY S01364 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Allows salary and civil service exam credits for police officers in certain cities and property tax credits for resident officers and student loan forgiveness program for certain police officers.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-14 - PRINT NUMBER 1364A [S01364 Detail]
Download: New_York-2015-S01364-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1364--A 2015-2016 Regular Sessions IN SENATE January 12, 2015 ___________ Introduced by Sen. PARKER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Local Government -- recom- mitted to the Committee on Local Government in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the general municipal law and the civil service law, in relation to salary and civil service exam credits for police officers in certain cities; to amend the tax law and the real property tax law, in relation to establishing certain tax credits for resident police officers; and to amend the education law, in relation to the police officer loan forgiveness program The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The general municipal law is amended by adding a new 2 section 207-r to read as follows: 3 § 207-r. Salaries of police officers who are residents of certain 4 cities. A city with a population of one hundred thousand or more is 5 hereby authorized to adopt a local law to provide that the salary of a 6 police officer of such city who is a resident thereof shall be increased 7 by an amount of five percent or more of such officer's base salary. 8 § 2. Section 58 of the civil service law is amended by adding a new 9 subdivision 7 to read as follows: 10 7. (a) A city with a population of one hundred thousand or more is 11 authorized to adopt a local law which would grant residents of such city 12 additional credits in competitive examinations for original appointment 13 as a police officer pursuant to this section. 14 (b) In the event of the enactment of a local law pursuant to paragraph 15 (a) of this subdivision, on an eligible list resulting from a compet- 16 itive examination for original appointment as a police officer, the 17 names of the eligible shall be entered in the order of their respective 18 final earned ratings on examination, with the name of the eligible with EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD06775-02-6
