Senate Bill S939

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Relates to positions for disabled veterans and veterans with disabilities

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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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2017-S939 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A4756
Current Committee:
Assembly Governmental Employees
Law Section:
Civil Service Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §55-c, Civ Serv L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2015-2016: S7126, A9801
2019-2020: S2830

2017-S939 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to positions for disabled veterans and veterans with disabilities.

2017-S939 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2017-S939 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    939
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              January 5, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sens.  CROCI,  ADDABBO,  AKSHAR, AVELLA, GOLDEN, HANNON,
   KENNEDY,  LARKIN,  LITTLE,  MARCHIONE,  MURPHY,   ORTT,   RANZENHOFER,
   RITCHIE, SEWARD -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to
   be committed to the Committee on Veterans, Homeland Security and Mili-
   tary Affairs

 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:
   § [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,
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

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