Allows additional credits for children or siblings of firefighters, police officers, emergency medical technicians, or paramedics killed in the administrative line of duty.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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2237
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 20, 2021
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Introduced by Sens. BROOKS, COMRIE -- 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 allowing addi-
tional credits for children and siblings of firefighters, police offi-
cers, emergency medical technicians, or paramedics killed in the
administrative line of duty
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The section heading and subdivision 1 of section 85-a of
2 the civil service law, as amended by chapter 376 of the laws of 2013,
3 are amended to read as follows:
4 Additional credits allowed children [and] or siblings of firefighters,
5 police officers, emergency medical technicians and paramedics killed in
6 the line of duty or killed in the administrative line of duty. 1. Addi-
7 tional credit authorized. Additional credits shall be allowed children
8 and siblings of firefighters, police officers, emergency medical techni-
9 cians [and] or paramedics killed in the line of duty or killed in the
10 administrative line of duty, as "child" and "sibling" in this section in
11 competitive examinations for original appointment. (a) On all eligible
12 lists resulting from competitive examinations, the names of eligible
13 persons shall be entered in the order of their respective final earned
14 ratings on examinations, with the name of the eligible person with the
15 highest final earned ratings at the head of such list, provided, howev-
16 er, that for the purpose of determining final earned ratings, children
17 and siblings of firefighters, police officers, emergency medical techni-
18 cians [and] or paramedics killed in the line of duty or killed in the
19 administrative line of duty shall be entitled to receive an additional
20 ten points in a competitive examination for original appointment in the
21 same municipality in which his or her parent or sibling has served. For
22 the purposes of this paragraph, a police officer [or], firefighter,
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 emergency medical technician, or paramedic shall be deemed to have
2 "served" in a municipality if he or she was employed by, or worked
3 primarily in, that municipality. For the purposes of this section,
4 "killed in the administrative line of duty" shall mean having died in
5 the performance of duty or following the performance of duty where such
6 performance of duty was the natural and proximate cause of death.
7 (b) Such additional credit shall be added to the final earned rating
8 of such child or sibling, as the case may be, after he or she has quali-
9 fied in the competitive examination and shall be granted only at the
10 time of establishment of the resulting eligible list.
11 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
