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Senate Bill S9458

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Allows Steven Kobie Jackson to be eligible to take the civil service exam for the position of police officer for the town of Woodstock police department

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2025-S9458 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A10704
Law Section:
Civil Service

2025-S9458 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Allows Steven Kobie Jackson to be eligible to take the civil service exam for the position of police officer for the town of Woodstock police department.

2025-S9458 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S9458 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   9458
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              March 13, 2026
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. HINCHEY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Civil Service and Pensions
 
 AN ACT to allow Steven Kobie Jackson to be eligible to  take  the  civil
   service  exam for the position of police officer for the town of Wood-
   stock police department
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Notwithstanding the provisions of section 58 of the civil
 service law or any other provision of law to the contrary, Steven  Kobie
 Jackson,  who  has  been  continuously employed by the town of Woodstock
 police department, in the county of Ulster, as a part-time police  offi-
 cer, shall be eligible to take the competitive civil service examination
 for  the position of police officer and shall, contingent upon his score
 on such examination, be eligible to be placed on the eligible  list  for
 appointment  as  a  full-time  police  officer for the town of Woodstock
 police department.
   § 2. Steven Kobie Jackson shall otherwise be subject to the merit  and
 fitness  provisions  of  the  civil  service law applicable to full-time
 police officers.
   § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD15229-01-6

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