Bill Text: NY A01316 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Relates to the promotion of civil service exams and requires the state civil service department to make efforts to utilize state university of New York educational opportunity centers when selecting test sites.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 11-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - referred to governmental employees [A01316 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A01316-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         1316--A
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 11, 2017
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  M.  of  A. ROZIC, ARROYO, CRESPO, DAVILA, DILAN, MOSLEY,
          MOYA, PICHARDO, RAMOS, RIVERA, RODRIGUEZ, SEPULVEDA -- read  once  and
          referred  to  the  Committee  on  Governmental  Employees -- committee
          discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
          to said committee
        AN ACT to amend the civil service law, in relation to the promotion  and
          administration of scheduled exams
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 50 of the civil  service  law,  as
     2  amended  by  chapter  166  of  the  laws  of 1978, is amended to read as
     3  follows:
     4    2. Announcement of examination. The state civil service department and
     5  municipal commissions shall issue an announcement  of  each  competitive
     6  examination,  setting  forth  the  minimum  qualifications required, the
     7  subjects of the examination, and such other information as they may deem
     8  necessary, and shall advertise and  promote  such  examination  in  such
     9  manner  as  the nature of the examination may require. Such announcement
    10  and advertisement  shall  each  inform  prospective  applicants  of  the
    11  options  for  religious observance provided in subdivision eight of this
    12  section.
    13    § 2. Section 50 of the civil service law is amended by  adding  a  new
    14  subdivision 5-a to read as follows:
    15    5-a. Location of examinations.  (a) The state civil service department
    16  shall  offer  examinations  at  any  location or locations that it deems
    17  suitable.
    18    (b) The state civil service department shall make efforts  to  utilize
    19  state  university  of  New  York  educational  opportunity  centers when
    20  selecting testing sites.
    21    § 3. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
    22  have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01160-02-7