Establishes the incentive and career exclusion for officers unethically targeting New York act to prohibit persons who were employed by United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Removal Operations on or after January 20, 2025 from being eligible for New York state workforce recruitment programs or resources; allows exceptions to such prohibition on a case-by-case basis.
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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I N A S S E M B L Y
February 12, 2026
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Introduced by M. of A. BORES -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Governmental Employees
AN ACT prohibiting certain persons who were employed by United States
Immigration and Customs Enforcement Enforcement and Removal Operations
from being eligible for New York state workforce recruitment programs
or resources
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "incentive
and career exclusion for officers unethically targeting New York act".
§ 2. No person who was employed by United States Immigration and
Customs Enforcement Enforcement and Removal Operations after January 20,
2025 shall be eligible to receive incentives, assistance or other bene-
fits from any New York state workforce recruitment programs or
resources. For the purposes of this act, "New York state workforce
recruitment programs or resources" shall include, but not be limited to,
the NY Hiring for Emergency Limited Placement Statewide (NY HELPS)
program, civil service examination fee waivers, career services and
resources offered through the department of labor to displaced federal
workers, and Centers for Careers in Government.
§ 3. The president of the state civil service commission, or the
top-ranking official of the municipal civil service commission or city
service, as applicable, may make exceptions to the ineligibility to
receive incentives, assistance or other benefits pursuant to section two
of this act on an individual, case-by-case basis.
§ 4. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD14740-03-6
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