A 200: Increases the age of eligibility for provisional or permanent appointment of certain police officers from thirty-five to forty.

  
  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 not apply to any police officer of any county, town, city or village 17 police force not otherwise provided for in this section if the eligible 18 list has been exhausted and there are no other eligible candidates; 19 provided, however, the police officer themselves are on the eligible 20 list of such county, town, city or village and meet all other require- 21 ments of merit and fitness set forth by this chapter and do not exceed 22 the maximum age of [thirty-nine] forty-four; 23 (b) [he or she] such person is a high school graduate or a holder of a 24 high school equivalency diploma issued by an education department of any 25 of the states of the United States or a holder of a comparable diploma 26 issued by any commonwealth, territory or possession of the United States 27 or by the Canal Zone or a holder of a report from the United States 28 armed forces certifying [his or her] the person's successful completion 29 of the tests of general educational development, high school level; 30 (c) [he or she] the person satisfies the height, weight, physical and 31 psychological fitness requirements prescribed by the municipal police 32 training council pursuant to the provisions of section eight hundred 33 forty of the executive law; and 34 (d) [he or she] the person is of good moral character as determined in 35 accordance with the background investigation standards of the municipal 36 police training council pursuant to the provisions of section eight 37 hundred forty of the executive law. 38 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.