Assembly Bill A6044

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                  6044

                       2011-2012 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                              March 4, 2011
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Introduced  by M. of A. CASTELLI, ORTIZ -- read once and referred to the
  Committee on Veterans' Affairs

AN ACT to amend the civil service law,  in  relation  to  employment  of
  veterans  with  disabilities  by  the state and including in the defi-
  nition of "time of war" more recent conflicts for  purposes  of  civil
  service credit

  THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1. The section heading and subdivision 1 of  section  55-c  of
the  civil service law, the section heading as amended by chapter 603 of
the laws of 1995 and subdivision 1 as amended by chapter 340 of the laws
of 2008, are amended to read as follows:
  [Employment of veterans with disabilities by the state] WOUNDED WARRI-
OR PROGRAM.  1. The commission may determine up to  five  hundred  posi-
tions  with  duties  such  as  can be performed by disabled veterans and
veterans with disabilities who are found otherwise qualified to  perform
satisfactorily the duties of any such position. Upon such determination,
the  said positions shall be classified in the noncompetitive class, and
may be filled only by veterans of the armed forces of the United  States
who  served  therein  during time of war, as defined in paragraph (c) of
subdivision one of section eighty-five of  this  chapter,  and  (a)  who
establish  by  appropriate  documentary  evidence that they are disabled
veterans, as defined in paragraph (b)  of  subdivision  one  of  section
eighty-five  of  this  chapter,  or (b) by those veterans, as defined in
paragraph (a) of subdivision one of section eighty-five of this chapter,
who shall have been certified by the  employee  health  service  of  the
department,  A PHYSICIAN, PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT, NURSE PRACTITIONER OR THE
UNITED STATES VETERANS' ADMINISTRATION OR as being disabled but  capable
of  performing  the duties of said positions.  Priority in certification
and referral of both such disabled veterans and certified  disabled  but
capable  veterans  shall be given to those veterans who received a wound

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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in combat, as documented by the awarding of the purple heart, as author-
ized by the United States department of defense, and that wound  is  the
cause  of,  or  a  substantially  contributing  factor to, the degree of
impairment,  who  otherwise  meet  the requirements of this section. The
number of veterans appointed pursuant to this section shall  not  exceed
five hundred.
  S 2. Section 55-c of the civil service law, as added by chapter 452 of
the laws of 1987, is renumbered section 55-d.
  S 3. Paragraph (c) of subdivision 1 of section 85 of the civil service
law  is  amended  by  adding  two  new subparagraphs 9 and 10 to read as
follows:
  (9) HOSTILITIES PARTICIPATED IN  BY  MILITARY  FORCES  OF  THE  UNITED
STATES IN BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA OR KOSOVO FROM NOVEMBER TWENTY-FIRST, NINE-
TEEN HUNDRED NINETY-FIVE TO NOVEMBER FIRST, TWO THOUSAND SEVEN.
  (10)  HOSTILITIES  PARTICIPATED  IN  BY  MILITARY FORCES OF THE UNITED
STATES, KNOWN AS THE WAR ON TERRORISM, WHICH COMMENCED IN  TWO  THOUSAND
ONE,  WHICH SHALL INCLUDE DEPLOYMENT ABROAD IN OPERATIONS ENDURING FREE-
DOM AND IRAQI FREEDOM, AS DEFINED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE,  IN  THE
FOLLOWING  DESIGNATED  SPECIFIC  GEOGRAPHIC AREAS: AFGHANISTAN, ALGERIA,
BAHRAIN, BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA, BULGARIA (BOURGAS),  CHAD,  CRETE,  CYPRUS,
DIEGO  GARCIA,  DJIBOUTI,  EGYPT,  ERITREA,  ETHIOPIA, GEORGIA, HUNGARY,
IRAN, IRAQ, ISRAEL, JORDAN, KAZAKHSTAN,  KENYA,  KOSOVO  (ONLY  SPECIFIC
GLOBAL  WAR  ON  TERRORISM  OPERATIONS  NOT  ASSOCIATED  WITH THE KOSOVO
CAMPAIGN AS DEFINED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE),  KUWAIT,  KYRGYZSTAN,
LEBANON,  MALI,  MAURITANIA,  NIGER, OMAN, PAKISTAN, PHILIPPINES, QATAR,
ROMANIA (CONSTANTA), SAUDI ARABIA, SOMALIA, SYRIA,  TAJIKISTAN,  TURKEY,
TURKMENISTAN,  UGANDA,  UNITED  ARAB  EMIRATES,  UZBEKISTAN, YEMEN, THAT
PORTION OF THE ARABIAN SEA NORTH OF TEN DEGREES NORTH LATITUDE AND  WEST
OF SIXTY-EIGHT DEGREES WEST LONGITUDE, BAB EL MANDEB, GULF OF ADEN, GULF
OF  AQABA, GULF OF OMAN, GULF OF SUEZ, THAT PORTION OF THE MEDITERRANEAN
SEA EAST OF TWENTY-EIGHT DEGREES EAST LONGITUDE AND BOARDING AND SEARCH-
ING VESSEL OPERATIONS, PERSIAN GULF, RED SEA, STRAIT OF HORMUZ AND  SUEZ
CANAL.
  S 4. This act shall take effect immediately.