Lifts mandatory hiring and retirement ages for state and municipal police. /
Sponsor: GALLIVAN Committee: CIVIL SERVICE AND PENSIONS

Provides for payment of salary, wages, medical and hospital expenses of members of the state police with injuries or illness incurred in the performance of their duties. /
Sponsor: GALLIVAN Committee: CIVIL SERVICE AND PENSIONS

Authorizes retired firefighters to be employed as fire science instructors by career and technical education centers without reduction of their retirement benefits. /
Sponsor: LARKIN Committee: CIVIL SERVICE AND PENSIONS

Prohibits elected officials from collecting retirement while still in office when the retirement is earned from an elective public office. /
Sponsor: AVELLA Committee: CIVIL SERVICE AND PENSIONS

Waives civil service examination application fees for veterans. /
Sponsor: KENNEDY Committee: CIVIL SERVICE AND PENSIONS

Relates to a waiver of earnings limitation for certain retirees of the New York state and local police and fire retirement system who are employed by the state university. /
Sponsor: STAVISKY Committee: CIVIL SERVICE AND PENSIONS

Relates to a waiver of earnings limitation for certain retirees of the New York state and local police and fire retirement system who are employed by the state university. /
Sponsor: STAVISKY Committee: CIVIL SERVICE AND PENSIONS

Directs the governor to establish a 2 year pilot program providing a 4 day work week for certain state employees; requires the department of civil service to report on the cost saving derived from the implementation of such program. /
Sponsor: GIANARIS Committee: CIVIL SERVICE AND PENSIONS

Authorizes Karen McClure to file for Tier II status with the state comptroller because she is currently Tier III, but worked for Cattaraugus county starting in 1973. /
Sponsor: GRISANTI Committee: CIVIL SERVICE AND PENSIONS

Relates to the attorney general's investigation and commencement of actions relating to fraudulent practices alleged to have damaged a public retirement system. /
Sponsor: LIBOUS Committee: CIVIL SERVICE AND PENSIONS

Provides three years of retirement service credit to certain retirement system members discharged from military service due to injuries suffered during certain military conflicts even if they did not serve three years in the military. /
Sponsor: MAZIARZ Committee: CIVIL SERVICE AND PENSIONS

Requires the public arbitration panel to which a dispute is referred to consider above all other factors the financial ability of the public employer to pay, as defined in this bill. /
Sponsor: RANZENHOFER Committee: CIVIL SERVICE AND PENSIONS

Prohibits the diminution of health insurance benefits of public employee retirees and their dependents or reducing the employer's contributions for such insurance from May 15, 2013 until May 15, 2014; defines public employers to include the state, municipalities, school districts, and public authorities and commissions. /
Sponsor: BRESLIN Committee: CIVIL SERVICE AND PENSIONS

Relates to prohibiting investment of funds of the common retirement fund in companies doing business in Sudan and requires divestiture of any such investments within three years. /
Sponsor: PERKINS Committee: CIVIL SERVICE AND PENSIONS

Provides that all affirmative action officers and administrators employed by the state shall be in competitive classified positions; directs the department of civil service to establish qualifications and examinations for employment and promotion in the affirmative action classification; provides that such officers and administrators shall report directly to their agency head; provides for annual affirmative action continuing education; requires every state agency employing 100 or more employees to employ a full-time affirmative action officer or administrator; requires agency affirmative action officers and administrators to appoint deputies, who shall participate in all interviews and determinations relating to the recruitment, appointment and promotion of employees in classified positions. /
Sponsor: PERKINS Committee: CIVIL SERVICE AND PENSIONS

Relates to establishing the New York state prescription medication cost containment program. /
Sponsor: DIAZ Committee: CIVIL SERVICE AND PENSIONS

Provides certain disability benefits for disabilities related to heart disease to sworn police officers of the division of law enforcement in the department of environmental conservation; provides that any condition of impairment of health, caused by diseases of the heart, resulting in disability or death to such sworn police officer, shall be presumptive evidence that it was incurred in the performance of such officer's duty. /
Sponsor: GRISANTI Committee: CIVIL SERVICE AND PENSIONS

Directs the president of the state civil service commission to publish reports annually relating to diversity within state government. /
Sponsor: PARKER Committee: CIVIL SERVICE AND PENSIONS

Authorizes Janice Middlebrooks, the widow of William James Middlebrooks, to file a retirement option election on behalf of her deceased husband. /
Sponsor: KENNEDY Committee: CIVIL SERVICE AND PENSIONS

Seeks to comply with the federal equal pay act of 1963 by implementing a state policy of compensating employees in state service equally for work of comparable value by eliminating wage inequality in job titles having been segregated by sex, race or national origin; requires the president of the civil service commission to report annually to the legislature and the governor on those segregated titles for which wage disparity exists; mandates governor to appropriate monies to ensure wage disparities are corrected. /
Sponsor: MONTGOMERY Committee: CIVIL SERVICE AND PENSIONS