Bill Text: NY S04351 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

---

Bill Title: Establishes that by enactment of a local law, any county, city, town or village may determine a number of positions that may be performed by disabled veterans and veterans with disabilities who are found otherwise qualified to perform satisfactorily the duties of any such position.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - REFERRED TO VETERANS, HOMELAND SECURITY AND MILITARY AFFAIRS [S04351 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S04351-Introduced.html

---

                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                          4351
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    February 10, 2017
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  Sen. TEDISCO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Veterans, Homeland Securi-
          ty and Military Affairs
        AN ACT to amend the civil service law, in relation to the employment  of
          veterans with disabilities by municipalities
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. The civil service law is amended by adding  a  new  section
     2  55-d to read as follows:
     3    § 55-d. Employment of veterans with disabilities by municipalities. 1.
     4  By  enactment  of  a  local  law,  any county, city, town or village may
     5  determine a number of positions as determined by  subdivision  three  of
     6  this  section  that  may  be performed by disabled veterans and veterans
     7  with disabilities who are found otherwise qualified to perform satisfac-
     8  torily the duties of any such position.  Upon such  determination,  such
     9  positions  shall  be  classified in the noncompetitive class, and may be
    10  filled only by veterans of the armed forces of  the  United  States  who
    11  served therein during time of war, as defined in paragraph (c) of subdi-
    12  vision one of section eighty-five of this chapter, and (a) who establish
    13  by  appropriate documentary evidence that they are disabled veterans, as
    14  defined in paragraph (b) of subdivision one of  section  eighty-five  of
    15  this  chapter,  or (b) by those veterans, as defined in paragraph (a) of
    16  subdivision one of section eighty-five of this chapter, who  shall  have
    17  been certified by the employee health service of the department as being
    18  disabled but capable of performing the duties of said positions. Priori-
    19  ty  in  certification  and  referral  of both such disabled veterans and
    20  certified disabled but capable veterans shall be given to those veterans
    21  who received a wound in combat, as documented by  the  awarding  of  the
    22  purple  heart, as authorized by the United States department of defense,
    23  and that wound is the cause of, or a substantially  contributing  factor
    24  to,  the  degree  of  impairment, who otherwise meet the requirements of
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD06366-01-7
        S. 4351                             2
     1  this section. The number of veterans appointed pursuant to this  section
     2  shall  not  exceed  the  limits established by subdivision three of this
     3  section.
     4    2.  Those employees hired under subdivision one of this section, shall
     5  be afforded the same opportunity to  take  promotional  examinations  as
     6  provided to employees in the competitive class.
     7    3.  The  number  of  positions  to be classified in the noncompetitive
     8  class pursuant to the  provisions  of  this  section  shall  be  at  the
     9  discretion  of  the  governing body of the county, city, town or village
    10  enacting such local law, but it shall in no event exceed one percent  of
    11  the  positions  within  such  county,  city,  town  or  village that are
    12  currently classified as being within the competitive class. In all cases
    13  a county, city, town or village enacting such local law may designate no
    14  less than one such position should it so desire.
    15    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.