STATE OF NEW YORK
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5702
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
March 3, 2015
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Introduced by M. of A. BRABENEC, MILLER, RAIA, GIGLIO, RA, DUPREY,
FINCH, SALADINO, CURRAN, BUTLER, SIMANOWITZ, GRAF, TENNEY -- Multi-
Sponsored by -- M. of A. CERETTO, CROUCH, HAWLEY, McKEVITT, McLAUGH-
LIN, OAKS -- read once and referred to the Committee 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 fifteen, 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 fifteen, 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.
LBD08944-01-5
