Authorizes the removal of police officer candidates from an eligible list when such candidate does not meet psychological fitness requirements or lacks good moral character standards.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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946
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE(Prefiled)
January 8, 2025
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Introduced by Sens. JACKSON, COONEY -- read twice and ordered printed,
and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Civil Service and
Pensions
AN ACT to amend the civil service law, in relation to authorizing the
removal of police officer candidates from an eligible list when such
candidate does not meet psychological fitness requirements or lacks
good moral character standards
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 58 of the civil service law is amended by adding a
2 new subdivision 1-a to read as follows:
3 1-a. Notwithstanding the provisions of any other section of law,
4 general, special or local, should it be determined by the appointing
5 authority that a candidate does not meet the psychological fitness
6 requirements or lacks the good moral character standards set by the
7 municipal police training council pursuant to the provisions of section
8 eight hundred forty of the executive law, then the appointing authority
9 may request that the local civil service commissioner remove such candi-
10 date from the eligible list. Upon receiving such request, the local
11 civil service commissioner shall comply forthwith.
12 § 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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