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Assembly Bill A8785

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Allows additional credits for children and siblings of firefighters, police officers, emergency medical technicians, or paramedics killed in the administrative line of duty

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2019-A8785 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S6488
Current Committee:
Assembly Governmental Employees
Law Section:
Civil Service Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §85-a, Civ Serv L
Versions Introduced in 2021-2022 Legislative Session:
S2237

2019-A8785 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Allows additional credits for children or siblings of firefighters, police officers, emergency medical technicians, or paramedics killed in the administrative line of duty.

2019-A8785 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8785
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             November 25, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. D'URSO -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Governmental Employees
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the civil service law, in relation to allowing addi-
   tional credits for children and siblings of firefighters, police offi-
   cers, emergency medical  technicians,  or  paramedics  killed  in  the
   administrative line of duty

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. The section heading and subdivision 1 of  section  85-a  of
 the  civil  service  law, as amended by chapter 376 of the laws of 2013,
 are amended to read as follows:
   Additional credits allowed children [and] OR siblings of firefighters,
 police officers, emergency medical technicians and paramedics killed  in
 the line of duty OR KILLED IN THE ADMINISTRATIVE LINE OF DUTY.  1. Addi-
 tional  credit authorized.  Additional credits shall be allowed children
 and siblings of firefighters, police officers, emergency medical techni-
 cians [and] OR paramedics killed in the line of duty OR  KILLED  IN  THE
 ADMINISTRATIVE LINE OF DUTY, as "child" and "sibling" in this section in
 competitive  examinations  for original appointment. (a) On all eligible
 lists resulting from competitive examinations,  the  names  of  eligible
 persons  shall  be entered in the order of their respective final earned
 ratings on examinations, with the name of the eligible person  with  the
 highest  final earned ratings at the head of such list, provided, howev-
 er, that for the purpose of determining final earned  ratings,  children
 and siblings of firefighters, police officers, emergency medical techni-
 cians  [and]  OR  paramedics killed in the line of duty OR KILLED IN THE
 ADMINISTRATIVE LINE OF DUTY shall be entitled to receive  an  additional
 ten  points in a competitive examination for original appointment in the
 same municipality in which his or her parent or sibling has served.  For
 the  purposes  of  this  paragraph,  a police officer [or], firefighter,
 EMERGENCY MEDICAL TECHNICIAN, OR  PARAMEDIC  shall  be  deemed  to  have
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

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