Bill Text: NY A03899 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Allows the civil service department or a municipal commission to establish continuing eligible lists when appropriate for any class of positions filled through open-competitive examination.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to governmental employees [A03899 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A03899-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3899

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 8, 2023
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        Introduced  by  M. of A. FAHY -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Governmental Employees

        AN ACT to amend the civil service  law,  in  relation  to  allowing  the
          establishment of continuing eligible lists when appropriate

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Section 57 of the civil service law, as added by chapter 83
     2  of the laws of 1963, is amended to read as follows:
     3    § 57. Continuous recruitment for  certain  positions.  Notwithstanding
     4  any other provisions of this chapter or any other law, the civil service
     5  department or a municipal commission may establish a continuing eligible
     6  list for any class of positions for which it finds inadequate numbers of
     7  well  qualified persons available for recruitment, provided that for any
     8  class of positions filled through open-competitive examination the civil
     9  service department or a municipal commission  may  establish  continuing
    10  eligible  lists  when appropriate.  Names of eligibles shall be inserted
    11  in such list from time to time as applicants are tested and found quali-
    12  fied in examinations held at such intervals as may be prescribed by  the
    13  civil  service  department  or municipal commission having jurisdiction.
    14  Such  successive  examinations  shall,  so  far   as   practicable,   be
    15  constructed  and  rated  so  as  to be equivalent tests of the merit and
    16  fitness of candidates. The name of any candidate  who  passes  any  such
    17  examination  and  who  is  otherwise  qualified  shall  be placed on the
    18  continuing eligible list in the rank corresponding to [his]  the  candi-
    19  date's  final  rating  on such examination. The period of eligibility of
    20  successful  candidates  for  certification  and  appointment  from  such
    21  continuing  eligible list, as a result of any such examination, shall be
    22  fixed by the civil  service  department  or  municipal  commission  but,
    23  except as a list may reach an announced terminal date, such period shall
    24  not  be  less than one year; nor shall such period of eligibility exceed
    25  four years. Subject to such conditions  and  limitations  as  the  civil

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD04481-01-3
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     1  service  department  or  municipal commission may prescribe, a candidate
     2  may take more than one such examination; provided, however, that no such
     3  candidate shall be certified simultaneously with more than one  rank  on
     4  the  continuing eligible list. With respect to any candidate who applies
     5  for and is granted additional credit in any such examination as a  disa-
     6  bled  or  non-disabled  veteran, and for the limited purpose of granting
     7  such additional credit, the eligible list shall be deemed to  be  estab-
     8  lished on the date on which [his] the candidate's name is added thereto.
     9    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.