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                                  9801

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                              April 8, 2016
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Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  DenDEKKER  --  read once and referred to the
  Committee on Governmental Employees

AN ACT to amend the civil service law,  in  relation  to  positions  for
  disabled veterans and veterans with disabilities

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

  Section 1. Section 55-c of the civil service law, as amended by  chap-
ter  603 of the laws of 1995, subdivision 1 as amended by chapter 340 of
the laws of 2008, is amended to read as follows:
  S [55-c] 55-D.  Employment of veterans with disabilities by the state.
1. The commission [may] SHALL 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 satisfac-
torily 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 subdi-
vision 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.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD14626-01-6

              

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  2.  Those employees hired under subdivision one of this section, shall
be afforded the same opportunity to  take  promotional  examinations  as
provided to employees in the competitive class.
  S  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
have become a law.