Bill Text: NY A03899 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced
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
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 3899 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY February 8, 2023 ___________ 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. LBD04481-01-3A. 3899 2 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.