Bill Text: NY S05070 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Relates to additional credits allowed children of firefighters and police officers killed in the line of duty.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 2)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2014-01-08 - REFERRED TO CIVIL SERVICE AND PENSIONS [S05070 Detail]
Download: New_York-2013-S05070-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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5070
2013-2014 Regular Sessions
I N S E N A T E
May 7, 2013
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Introduced by Sen. GOLDEN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Civil Service and Pensions
AN ACT to amend the civil service law, in relation to additional credits
allowed children of firefighters and police officers killed in the
line of duty
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 85-a of the civil
2 service law, as amended by chapter 75 of the laws of 2008, is amended to
3 read as follows:
4 (a) On all eligible lists resulting from competitive examinations, the
5 names of eligible persons shall be entered in the order of their respec-
6 tive final earned ratings on examinations, with the name of the eligible
7 person with the highest final earned ratings at the head of such list,
8 provided, however, that for the purpose of determining final earned
9 ratings, children of firefighters and police officers killed in the line
10 of duty shall be entitled to receive an additional ten points in a
11 competitive examination for original appointment in the same munici-
12 pality in which his or her parent has served. For the purposes of this
13 paragraph, a police officer or firefighter shall be deemed to have
14 "served" in a municipality if he or she was employed by, or worked
15 primarily in, that municipality. AS USED IN THIS SECTION, "KILLED IN THE
16 LINE OF DUTY" SHALL INCLUDE, BUT NOT BE LIMITED TO, HAVING DIED IN THE
17 PERFORMANCE OF DUTY AS THE NATURAL AND PROXIMATE RESULT OF THE WORLD
18 TRADE CENTER ATTACK ON SEPTEMBER ELEVENTH, TWO THOUSAND ONE OR AS THE
19 NATURAL AND PROXIMATE RESULT OF PARTICIPATION IN THE RESCUE EFFORT THAT
20 WAS CONDUCTED IN RESPONSE TO SUCH ATTACK.
21 S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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