Bill Text: NY A05535 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Increases civil service credits given to veterans currently returning from service.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 18-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-07-15 - held for consideration in veterans' affairs [A05535 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-A05535-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5535 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY February 13, 2019 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. BRABENEC -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee on Veterans' Affairs AN ACT to amend the civil service law, in relation to increasing civil service credits given to veterans currently returning from service The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 2 of section 85 of the civil 2 service law is amended by adding two new subparagraphs 3 and 4 to read 3 as follows: 4 (3) Veterans honorably discharged on or after January first, two thou- 5 sand nineteen, shall be entitled to receive ten points additional credit 6 in a competitive examination for original appointment and five points 7 additional credit in a competitive examination for promotion. 8 (4) Disabled veterans honorably discharged on or after January first, 9 two thousand nineteen, shall be entitled to receive fifteen points addi- 10 tional credit in a competitive examination for original appointment and 11 ten points additional credit in a competitive examination for promotion. 12 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD08062-01-9