Assembly Bill A7379

Signed By Governor
2023-2024 Legislative Session

Relates to the "wartime service" requirement

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2023-A7379 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S7378
Law Section:
Civil Service Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §55-c, Civ Serv L

2023-A7379 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Eliminates the "wartime service" requirement to expand the number of qualified veterans eligible for certain civil service positions.

2023-A7379 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7379
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               May 18, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M. of A. PHEFFER AMATO -- (at request of the Division of
   Veterans Services) -- read once  and  referred  to  the  Committee  on
   Governmental Employees
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend the civil service law, in relation to eliminating the
   "wartime service" requirement

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1. Subdivision 1 of section 55-c of the civil service law, as
 amended by chapter 340 of the laws  of  2008,  is  amended  to  read  as
 follows:
   1. The  commission  may  determine  up  to five hundred positions 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 posi-
 tions 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 as being
 disabled but capable of performing the duties of said positions.  Prior-
 ity 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  in combat, as documented by the awarding of the
 purple heart, as authorized 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.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets

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