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May 04, 2010 |
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Assembly Bill A10940
2009-2010 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
GABRYSZAK
Archive: Last Bill Status - In Assembly Committee
- Introduced
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- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
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- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
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- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- Delivered to Governor
- Signed By Governor
Actions
co-Sponsors
Joan Christensen
Kevin Cahill
David Koon
Ellen C. Jaffee
multi-Sponsors
James F. Brennan
Daniel Burling
Nancy Calhoun
Clifford Crouch
2009-A10940 (ACTIVE) - Details
2009-A10940 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo
BILL NUMBER:A10940 TITLE OF BILL: An act to amend the civil service law and the executive law, in relation to lifting mandatory hiring and retirement ages for state and municipal police PURPOSE: To remove mandatory hiring and retirement ages for state and municipal police. SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS: Section 1: Amends section 58 of the civil service law to remove the maximum hiring age of 35 for municipal law enforcement officers. Section 2: Amends section 215 of the executive law to remove the maximum hiring age of 29 for state police, while keeping the minimum age of 21 intact. Section 3: Enacting clause. EXISTING LAW: Current law sets a maximum hiring age of 35 for municipal police officers, and 29 for state police officers. JUSTIFICATION: New York is one of the only states to impose a hiring age limit on its law enforcement officers. This statewide law, however, is not grounded in empirical or scientific information. In effect, the current law does little more than exclude qualified candidates based on
2009-A10940 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 10940 I N A S S E M B L Y May 4, 2010 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. GABRYSZAK -- read once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Employees AN ACT to amend the civil service law and the executive law, in relation to lifting mandatory hiring and retirement ages for state and munici- pal police THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 1 of section 58 of the civil service law, as amended by chapter 346 of the laws of 2008, is amended to read as follows: (a) he or she is not less than twenty years of age as of the date of appointment [nor more than thirty-five years of age as of the date when the applicant takes the written examination, provided that the maximum age requirement of thirty-five years of age as set forth in this para- graph shall not apply to eligible lists finalized pursuant to an exam- ination administered prior to May thirty-first, nineteen hundred nine- ty-nine, provided, however, that: (i) time spent on military duty or on terminal leave, not exceeding a total of six years, shall be subtracted from the age of any applicant who has passed his or her thirty-fifth birthday as provided in subdivi- sion ten-a of section two hundred forty-three of the military law; (ii) such maximum age requirement of thirty-five years shall not apply to any police officer as defined in subdivision thirty-four of section 1.20 of the criminal procedure law, who was continuously employed by the Buffalo municipal housing authority between January first, two thousand five and June thirtieth, two thousand five and who takes the next writ- ten exam offered after the effective date of this subparagraph by the city of Buffalo civil service commission for employment as a police officer in the city of Buffalo police department, or June thirtieth, two thousand six, whichever is later; and (iii) such maximum age requirement of thirty-five years shall not apply to any police officer of any county, town, city or village police force not otherwise provided for in this section if the eligible list has been exhausted and there are no other eligible candidates; provided, however, the police officer themselves are on the eligible list of such county, town, city or village and meet all other requirements of merit
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