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- Referred to civil service and pensions
- Returned to senate
- Died in assembly
- Referred to governmental operations
- Delivered to assembly
- Passed senateVote 63–0
- Advanced to third reading
- 2nd report cal.
- 1st report cal.942
- Referred to civil service and pensions
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Relates to additional credits allowed children of firefighters and police officers killed in the line of duty
In Assembly Committee · Governmental Employees · Sponsor Peter Abbate
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Sponsor's memo
BILL NUMBER:S5070
Title of bill
An act to amend the civil service law, in relation to additional credits allowed children of firefighters and police officers killed in the line of duty
Purpose
This bill clarifies existing law by defining the term "killed in the line of duty" to include deaths that were the natural and proximate result of either the attacks on September 11, 2001 or participating in the rescue effort that was conducted in response to the attacks on September 11, 2001.
Summary of specific provisions
Section one of the bill amends Civil Service Law section 85-a(a) to define the term "killed in the line of duty" to include deaths that were the natural and proximate result of either the attacks on September 11, 2001 or participating in the rescue effort that was conducted in response to the attacks on September 11, 2001.
Section two of this bill provides that this act shall take effect immediately.
Existing law
Currently, Civil Service Law section 85-a provides that children of firefighters and police officers that are killed in the line of duty are allowed additional points on a civil service examination when the position is located in the same municipality where the applicant's deceased parent served.
Justification
This bill clarifies that children of firefighters and police officers whose deaths were the natural and proximate result of either the attacks on September 11, 2001 or participating in the rescue effort that was conducted in response to the attacks on September 11, 2001 are entitled to the benefits provided by Civil Service Law section 85-a. Currently, Civil Service Law section 85-b provides that siblings of firefighters and police officers that are killed in the performance of duty when such death was the natural and proximate result of either the attacks on September 11, 2001 or participating in the rescue effort that was conducted in response to the attacks on September 11, 2001 are allowed additional points on a civil service examination when the position is located in the same municipality where the applicant's deceased sibling served. An issue has arisen regarding whether, in light of Civil Service Law section 85-b, deaths that were the natural and proximate result of either the attacks on September 11, 2001 or participating in the rescue effort that was conducted in response to the attacks on September 11, 2001 are deaths "in the line of duty" for purposes of section 85-a. This bill clarifies that such deaths are deaths "in the line of duty."
Prior legislative history
New bill
Fiscal implications
None to State
Effective date
This act shall take effect immediately.
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