Bill Text: NY S02372 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Authorizes the enactment of local laws requiring residency in cities with a population of one million or more for members of the police force appointed to such positions; provides increased salaries for certain police officers who are residents of certain cities; provides additional credits on competitive exams for original appointment of police officers, tax credits, real property tax credits and student loan forgiveness based upon residency in certain cities.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-28 - PRINT NUMBER 2372A [S02372 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S02372-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         2372--A
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    January 22, 2015
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  Sens. PARKER, HASSELL-THOMPSON -- read twice and ordered
          printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Investi-
          gations and Government Operations -- recommitted to the  Committee  on
          Investigations  and  Government  Operations  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 public officers law, the general municipal law and
          the civil service law, in relation to residency requirements,  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. Section 3 of the public officers law is amended by adding a
     2  new subdivision 65 to read as follows:
     3    65. Notwithstanding the provisions of subdivision two of this section,
     4  a city with a population of one million or more shall have the authority
     5  to enact a local law subsequent to the effective date of  this  subdivi-
     6  sion  requiring  any  person  who is appointed as a member of the police
     7  force of such city to be a resident of such a city  during  his  or  her
     8  employment  as  a police officer; provided however, that nothing in this
     9  subdivision shall authorize such local law  to  affect  any  person  who
    10  entered  such  city  service  as  a  police officer prior to thirty days
    11  subsequent to the date of enactment of the local law.
    12    § 2. The general municipal law is amended  by  adding  a  new  section
    13  207-s to read as follows:
    14    §  207-s.  Salaries  of  police  officers who are residents of certain
    15  cities. A city with a population of one  hundred  thousand  or  more  is
    16  hereby  authorized  to adopt a local law to provide that the salary of a
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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