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Senator · Senate District 59
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- Committee discharged and committed to civil service and pensions
- Referred to transportation
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Relates to transfers or appointments of police officers to competitive or non-competitive positions
In Assembly Committee · Governmental Employees · Sponsor Crystal Peoples-Stokes
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Sponsor's memo
BILL NUMBER:S6347
Title of bill
An act to amend the public authorities law and the civil service law, in relation to transfers or appointments of police officers to competitive or non-competitive positions; and providing for the repeal of such provisions upon expiration thereof
Purpose or general idea of bill
To allow NFTA police officers to transfer to municipal police departments.
Summary of specific provisions
Section 1. Ensures that only NFTA officers who were laid off for other than punitive or disciplinary reasons qualify for transfers to local police departments.
Section 2. Provides that current professionally-administered NFTA police officer examinations are considered competitive for civil service purposes. Any individual that take these examinations will be eligible to have their scores considered by local police departments.
Section 3. Provides authority for NFTA police transfers.
Section 4. Ensures that any experienced NFTA (over 35) looking to transfer to local departments can do so.
Section 5. Sunset provision.
Justification
NFTA police officers receive nearly identical training and certification that other police officers do. They are appointed based on their merit, performance on competitive examinations, and completion of a certified Police Academy course lasting a minimum of 500 hours. They also perform substantially the same work as most municipal police departments. However, when it comes to transferring to other police positions, NFTA officers find that under current state law, they are unable to do so.
This legislation would make about 20 recently laid off NFTA officers qualify to apply for any open municipal police positions. However, this bill does not provide them any special treatment or exemption from current hiring rules. All candidates would still have to conform to local residency, experience and physical and mental condition requirements. Giving these recently laid off officers the chance to pursue other police department opportunities is the least that New York State can do.
Prior legislative history
None.
Fiscal implications
None to the State.
Effective date
This act shall take effect immediately and expire January 1, 2014 where upon such date the provisions of this act shall be repealed.
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