Bill Text: NY S02830 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Relates to positions for disabled veterans and veterans with disabilities.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO VETERANS, HOMELAND SECURITY AND MILITARY AFFAIRS [S02830 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S02830-Introduced.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                          2830
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    January 29, 2019
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  Sen.  BROOKS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Veterans, Homeland Securi-
          ty and Military Affairs
        AN ACT to amend the civil service law,  in  relation  to  positions  for
          disabled veterans and veterans with disabilities
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Section 55-c of the civil service law, as amended by  chap-
     2  ter  603 of the laws of 1995, subdivision 1 as amended by chapter 340 of
     3  the laws of 2008, is amended to read as follows:
     4    § [55-c] 55-d.  Employment of veterans with disabilities by the state.
     5  1. The commission [may] shall determine [up to] five  hundred  positions
     6  with  duties  such as can be performed by disabled veterans and veterans
     7  with disabilities who are found otherwise qualified to perform satisfac-
     8  torily the duties of any such position.  Upon  such  determination,  the
     9  said  positions shall be classified in the noncompetitive class, and may
    10  be filled only by veterans of the armed forces of the United States  who
    11  served therein during time of war, as defined in paragraph (c) of subdi-
    12  vision one of section eighty-five of this chapter, and (a) who establish
    13  by  appropriate documentary evidence that they are disabled veterans, as
    14  defined in paragraph (b) of subdivision one of  section  eighty-five  of
    15  this  chapter,  or (b) by those veterans, as defined in paragraph (a) of
    16  subdivision one of section eighty-five of this chapter, who  shall  have
    17  been certified by the employee health service of the department as being
    18  disabled but capable of performing the duties of said positions.  Prior-
    19  ity  in  certification  and  referral of both such disabled veterans and
    20  certified disabled but capable veterans shall be given to those veterans
    21  who received a wound in combat, as documented by  the  awarding  of  the
    22  purple  heart, as authorized by the United States department of defense,
    23  and that wound is the cause of, or a substantially  contributing  factor
    24  to,  the  degree  of  impairment, who otherwise meet the requirements of
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05492-01-9

        S. 2830                             2
     1  this section. The number of veterans appointed pursuant to this  section
     2  shall not exceed five hundred.
     3    2.  Those employees hired under subdivision one of this section, shall
     4  be afforded the same opportunity to  take  promotional  examinations  as
     5  provided to employees in the competitive class.
     6    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
     7  have become a law.
feedback