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Jan 03, 2018 |
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Mar 15, 2017 |
referred to finance |
Senate Bill S5206
2017-2018 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
(R, C) 60th Senate District
Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Finance Committee
- Introduced
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- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
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- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
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- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- Delivered to Governor
- Signed By Governor
Actions
2017-S5206 (ACTIVE) - Details
- Current Committee:
- Senate Finance
- Law Section:
- Executive Law
- Laws Affected:
- Amd §215, Exec L
2017-S5206 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo
BILL NUMBER: S5206 TITLE OF BILL : An act to amend the executive law, in relation to lifting mandatory hiring and retirement ages for state police PURPOSE : To remove mandatory hiring and retirement ages for state police. SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS : Section 1: Amends section 215 of the executive law to remove the maximum hiring age of 29 for state police, while keeping the minimum age of 21 intact. Section 2: Effective date. EXISTING LAW : Current law sets a maximum hiring age of 29 for state police officers. JUSTIFICATION : New York is one of the only states to impose a hiring age limit on its law enforcement officers. This statewide law, however, is not grounded in empirical or scientific information. In effect, the current law
2017-S5206 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 5206 2017-2018 Regular Sessions I N S E N A T E March 15, 2017 ___________ Introduced by Sen. GALLIVAN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Finance AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to lifting mandatory hiring and retirement ages for state police THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 215 of the executive law, as amended by chapter 478 of the laws of 2004, is amended to read as follows: 3. The sworn members of the New York state police shall be appointed by the superintendent and permanent appointees may be removed by the superintendent only after a hearing. No person shall be appointed to the New York state police force as a sworn member unless he or she shall be a citizen of the United States, [between the ages of twenty-one and twenty-nine years except that in the superintendent's discretion, the maximum age may be extended to thirty-five years. Notwithstanding any other provision of law or any general or special law to the contrary the time spent on military duty, not exceeding a total of six years, shall be subtracted from the age of any applicant who has passed his or her twenty-ninth birthday, solely for the purpose of permitting qualifica- tion as to age and for no other purpose. Such limitations as to age however shall not apply to persons appointed to the positions of coun- sel, first assistant counsel, assistant counsel, and assistant deputy superintendent for employee relations nor to any person appointed to the bureau of criminal investigation pursuant to section two hundred sixteen of this article nor shall any person be appointed] NOT LESS THAN TWEN- TY-ONE YEARS OF AGE AS OF THE DATE OF APPOINTMENT, OR unless he or she has fitness and good moral character and shall have passed a physical and mental examination based upon standards provided by the rules and regulations of the superintendent. Appointments shall be made for a probationary period which, in the case of appointees required to attend EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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