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Senate Bill S6082

2011-2012 Legislative Session

Relates to veterans' credits for civil service appointments and promotions

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Veterans, Homeland Security And Military Affairs Committee

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2011-S6082 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Veterans, Homeland Security And Military Affairs
Law Section:
Civil Service Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง85, Civ Serv L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2013-2014: S717
2015-2016: S2954

2011-S6082 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to veterans' credits for civil service appointments and promotions; increases the the credit preference for wartime and disabled wartime veterans by five points for a competitive examination for original appointment and by two and one-half points for a competitive examination for promotion.

2011-S6082 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2011-S6082 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  6082

                            I N  S E N A T E

                               (PREFILED)

                             January 4, 2012
                               ___________

Introduced  by Sen. GRISANTI -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
  printed to be committed to the Committee on Veterans, Homeland Securi-
  ty and Military Affairs

AN ACT to amend the civil service law, in relation to veterans'  credits
  for civil service appointments and promotions

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

  Section 1. Subparagraphs 1 and 2 of paragraph (a) of subdivision 2  of
section 85 of the civil service law, as added by chapter 790 of the laws
of 1958, are amended to read as follows:
  (1)  Disabled  veterans  shall  be  entitled  to receive [ten] FIFTEEN
points additional in a competitive examination for original  appointment
and  [five] SEVEN AND ONE-HALF points additional credit in a competitive
examination for promotion, and
  (2) Non-disabled veterans shall be  entitled  to  receive  [five]  TEN
points  additional  credit  in  a  competitive  examination for original
appointment and [two and one-half] FIVE points additional  credit  in  a
competitive examination for promotion.
  S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.





 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD13699-01-2

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