STATE OF NEW YORK
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6709
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
March 20, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. WEBER -- 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 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 twenty-five, shall be entitled to receive ten points additional
6 credit in a competitive examination for original appointment and five
7 points additional credit in a competitive examination for promotion.
8 (4) Disabled veterans honorably discharged on or after January first,
9 two thousand twenty-five, shall be entitled to receive fifteen points
10 additional credit in a competitive examination for original appointment
11 and ten points additional credit in a competitive examination for
12 promotion.
13 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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