New York A 200: Relates to the age of eligibility for provisional or permanent appointment of certain police officers

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A00200 Summary:

BILL NOA00200 

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SAME ASNo Same As

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SPONSORMcDonald

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COSPNSRShimsky, Lucas, Taylor, Seawright, Bichotte Hermelyn, Davila, Levenberg, Cook, Septimo, Woerner,
 Steck, Bendett, Angelino, Tannousis, Brabenec, Jensen, Beephan, DeStefano, Lemondes, Walsh, Brown
 K, Miller, Burdick, Magnarelli, Carroll P, Manktelow, Blankenbush, Simpson, Sempolinski, Tague,
 Glick, Hawley, Friend, Kay, Williams, Torres, Ra, Chludzinski, Sayegh, Barrett, Palmesano, Mikulin,
 Zaccaro, Alvarez, Lunsford, Griffin, Ramos

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MLTSPNSRSantabarbara

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Amd §58, Civ Serv L

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Increases the age of eligibility for provisional or permanent appointment of certain police officers from thirty-five to forty.

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BILL NOA00200 

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01/08/2025referred to governmental employees

01/07/2026referred to governmental employees

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 200

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 (Prefiled)

 January 8, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. McDONALD, SHIMSKY, LUCAS, TAYLOR, SEAWRIGHT,
 BICHOTTE HERMELYN, DAVILA, LEVENBERG, COOK, SEPTIMO, WOERNER, STECK,
 BENDETT, ANGELINO, TANNOUSIS, BRABENEC, JENSEN, BEEPHAN, DeSTEFANO,
 LEMONDES, WALSH, K. BROWN, MILLER -- read once and referred to the
 Committee on Governmental Employees

 AN ACT to amend the civil service law, in relation to increasing the age
 of eligibility for provisional or permanent appointment of certain
 police officers from thirty-five to forty

 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
 bly, do enact as follows:

 1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 58 of the civil service law, as
 2 amended by chapter 244 of the laws of 2013, paragraphs (c) and (d) as
 3 amended by section 16 of part BBB of chapter 59 of the laws of 2021, is
 4 amended to read as follows:
 5 1. Notwithstanding any other provision of this law or any general,
 6 special or local law to the contrary, no person shall be eligible for
 7 provisional or permanent appointment in the competitive class of the
 8 civil service as a police officer of the department of environmental
 9 conservation or of any police force or police department of any county,
 10 city, town, village, housing authority or police district unless [he or
 11 she] such person shall satisfy the following basic requirements:
 12 (a) [he or she] the person is not less than twenty years of age as of
 13 the date of appointment nor more than [thirty-five] forty years of age
 14 as of the date when the applicant takes the written examination,
 15 provided that the maximum age requirement of [thirty-five] forty years
 16 of age as set forth in this paragraph shall not apply to eligible lists
 17 finalized pursuant to an examination administered prior to May thirty-
 18 first, nineteen hundred ninety-nine or a police officer in the depart-
 19 ment of environmental conservation, provided, however, that:

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD00324-01-5

 A. 200 2

 1 (i) time spent on military duty or on terminal leave, not exceeding a
 2 total of six years, shall be subtracted from the age of any applicant
 3 who has passed [his or her thirty-fifth] the applicant's fortieth birth-
 4 day as provided in subdivision ten-a of section two hundred forty-three
 5 of the military law;
 6 (ii) such maximum age requirement of [thirty-five] forty years shall
 7 not apply to any police officer as defined in subdivision thirty-four of
 8 section 1.20 of the criminal procedure law, who was continuously
 9 employed by the Buffalo municipal housing authority between January
 10 first, two thousand five and June thirtieth, two thousand five and who
 11 takes the next written exam offered after the effective date of this
 12 subparagraph by the city of Buffalo civil service commission for employ-
 13 ment as a police officer in the city of Buffalo police department, or
 14 June thirtieth, two thousand six, whichever is later; and
 15 (iii) such maximum age requirement of [thirty-five] forty years shall
 16 n