New York A 3673: Relates to lifting mandatory hiring and retirement ages municipal police

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A03673 Summary:

BILL NOA03673 

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SAME ASNo Same As

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SPONSORBendett

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COSPNSRHawley, Brabenec, Smullen, DeStefano, Brown K, Sempolinski, Chang

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §58, Civ Serv L

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Relates to lifting mandatory hiring and retirement ages for municipal police.

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BILL NOA03673 

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01/29/2025referred to governmental employees

05/19/2025held for consideration in governmental employees

01/07/2026referred to governmental employees

Go to topA03673 Committee&nbspVotes:

Committee:GOVERNMENTAL EMPLOYEES Chair:Pheffer Amato 
DATE:05/19/2025AYE/NAY:8/5 Action: Held for Consideration Pheffer AmatoAyeDeStefanoNay

ColtonAyeReillyNay

SantabarbaraNayGiglioNay

EichensteinAyeTannousisNay

FallAbsent

OtisAye

GriffinAye

CarrollAye

RomeroAye

YegerAye

Go to topA03673 Floor&nbspVotes:

There are no Assembly votes for this bill in this legislative session.

Go to topA03673 Text:

 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 3673

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 January 29, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. BENDETT -- read once and referred to the Commit-
 tee on Governmental Employees

 AN ACT to amend the civil service law, in relation to lifting mandatory
 hiring and retirement ages for municipal police

 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 1 of section 58 of the civil
 2 service law, as amended by chapter 244 of the laws of 2013, is amended
 3 to read as follows:
 4 (a) [he or she] such person is not less than twenty years of age as of
 5 the date of appointment [nor more than thirty-five years of age as of
 6 the date when the applicant takes the written examination, provided that
 7 the maximum age requirement of thirty-five years of age as set forth in
 8 this paragraph shall not apply to eligible lists finalized pursuant to
 9 an examination administered prior to May thirty-first, nineteen hundred
 10 ninety-nine or a police officer in the department of environmental
 11 conservation, provided, however, that:
 12 (i) time spent on military duty or on terminal leave, not exceeding a
 13 total of six years, shall be subtracted from the age of any applicant
 14 who has passed his or her thirty-fifth birthday as provided in subdivi-
 15 sion ten-a of section two hundred forty-three of the military law;
 16 (ii) such maximum age requirement of thirty-five years shall not apply
 17 to any police officer as defined in subdivision thirty-four of section
 18 1.20 of the criminal procedure law, who was continuously employed by the
 19 Buffalo municipal housing authority between January first, two thousand
 20 five and June thirtieth, two thousand five and who takes the next writ-
 21 ten exam offered after the effective date of this subparagraph by the
 22 city of Buffalo civil service commission for employment as a police
 23 officer in the city of Buffalo police department, or June thirtieth, two
 24 thousand six, whichever is later; and

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD07952-01-5

 A. 3673 2

 1 (iii) such maximum age requirement of thirty-five years shall not
 2 apply to any police officer of any county, town, city or village police
 3 force not otherwise provided for in this section if the eligible list
 4 has been exhausted and there are no other eligible candidates; provided,
 5 however, the police officer themselves are on the eligible list of such
 6 county, town, city or village and meet all other requirements of merit
 7 and fitness set forth by this chapter and do not exceed the maximum age
 8 of thirty-nine];
 9 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
 10 it shall have become a law.

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