STATE OF NEW YORK
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1105--B
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 10, 2017
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Introduced by M. of A. HUNTER, MAYER, ORTIZ, ENGLEBRIGHT, McDONALD,
GJONAJ, RA, OAKS, BRABENEC -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Governmental Employees -- committee discharged, bill amended,
ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee --
reported and referred to the Committee on Ways and Means -- committee
discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
to said committee
AN ACT to amend the civil service law, in relation to the waiver of
application fees for honorably discharged veterans
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 5 of section 50 of the civil
2 service law, as amended by chapter 449 of the laws of 2006, is amended
3 to read as follows:
4 (b) Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (a) of this subdivi-
5 sion, the state civil service department, subject to the approval of the
6 director of the budget, a municipal commission, subject to the approval
7 of the governing board or body of the city or county, as the case may
8 be, or a regional commission or personnel officer, pursuant to govern-
9 mental agreement, may elect to waive application fees, or to abolish
10 fees for specific classes of positions or types of examinations or
11 candidates, or to establish a uniform schedule of reasonable fees
12 different from those prescribed in paragraph (a) of this subdivision,
13 specifying in such schedule the classes of positions or types of exam-
14 inations or candidates to which such fees shall apply; provided, howev-
15 er, that fees shall be waived for candidates who certify to the state
16 civil service department, a municipal commission or a regional commis-
17 sion that they are unemployed and primarily responsible for the support
18 of a household, or are receiving public assistance. Provided further,
19 the state civil service department shall waive the state application fee
20 for examinations for original appointment for all veterans who were
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 honorably discharged or released under honorable circumstances from such
2 service.
3 § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
4 have become a law.
