BILL NUMBER:A10523
TITLE OF BILL:
An act to amend the civil service law, in relation to employment of
veterans with disabilities by municipalities
PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL:
Allows municipalities to classify a limited number of positions with
duties that can be performed by disabled veterans as noncompetitive
class and to set such positions aside for disabled veterans of the armed
forces.
SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS:
The bill adds a new section 55-d to the Civil Service Law to authorize
municipalities to reclassify up to two hundred positions with duties
that can be performed by disabled veterans as noncompetitive class. Such
positions would then only be open to disabled veterans and veterans with
disabilities who served during time of war, as defined by Civil Service
Law §85. A veteran holding a position pursuant to this provision shall
be afforded with the same opportunity as employees in the competitive
class to take promotional examinations.
JUSTIFICATION:
Section 55-c of the Civil Service Law authorizes the State to reclassify
and set aside up to three hundred positions for disabled veterans and
veterans with disabilities. This bill would provide municipalities with
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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10523
I N A S S E M B L Y
April 2, 2010
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Introduced by M. of A. TEDISCO -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Governmental Employees
AN ACT to amend the civil service law, in relation to 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:
Section 1. The civil service law is amended by adding a new section
55-d to read as follows:
S 55-D. EMPLOYMENT OF VETERANS WITH DISABILITIES BY MUNICIPALITIES. 1.
MUNICIPAL CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSIONS IN THE STATE MAY, BY RULE, DETERMINE
A PRESCRIBED NUMBER OF POSITIONS, NOT TO EXCEED TWO HUNDRED POSITIONS,
WITH DUTIES WHICH CAN BE PERFORMED BY DISABLED VETERANS AND VETERANS
WITH DISABILITIES WHO ARE FOUND OTHERWISE QUALIFIED, IN THE MANNER HERE-
AFTER PRESCRIBED, TO PERFORM SATISFACTORILY THE DUTIES OF ANY SUCH POSI-
TION.
2. UPON SUCH DETERMINATION, THE SAID POSITIONS SHALL BE CLASSIFIED IN
THE NON-COMPETITIVE 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 SUBDIVI-
SION ONE OF SECTION EIGHTY-FIVE OF THIS CHAPTER, OR (B) BY THOSE VETER-
ANS, AS DEFINED IN PARAGRAPH (A) OF SUBDIVISION ONE OF SECTION
EIGHTY-FIVE OF THIS CHAPTER, WHO SHALL HAVE BEEN CERTIFIED BY EITHER THE
COMMISSION FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY HANDICAPPED IN THE STATE DEPART-
MENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES AS PHYSICALLY DISABLED BY BLINDNESS OR BY THE
STATE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT AS OTHERWISE PHYSICALLY OR MENTALLY DISABLED
AND, IN ANY EVENT, QUALIFIED TO PERFORM SATISFACTORILY THE DUTIES OF ANY
SUCH POSITION. PRIORITY IN CERTIFICATION AND REFERRAL OF BOTH SUCH DISA-
BLED 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 DEPART-
MENT OF DEFENSE, AND THAT WOUND IS THE CAUSE OF, OR A SUBSTANTIALLY
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD15937-01-0
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