Bill Text: NY A06091 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to the appointment and promotion of supervisors of the emergency medical service.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Passed) 2019-08-29 - signed chap.191 [A06091 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A06091-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6091
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 27, 2019
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        Introduced by M. of A. ABBATE -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Governmental Employees
        AN  ACT  to  amend the civil service law, in relation to the appointment
          and promotion of supervisors of the emergency medical service
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1. Section 59-b of the civil service law, as added by a chap-
     2  ter of the laws of 2018, amending the civil service law relating to  the
     3  appointment  and  promotion  of  supervisors  of  the  emergency medical
     4  service, as proposed in legislative bills numbers  S.    5118-B  and  A.
     5  6990-A, is amended to read as follows:
     6    §  59-b.  Promotions of supervisory personnel of the emergency medical
     7  service. 1. The legislature hereby finds and declares that  the  contin-
     8  ued,  uninterrupted,  adequate  and  efficient  operation  of  emergency
     9  medical services is necessary for the general  welfare  of  the  people;
    10  that such adequate operation involves and requires personnel with highly
    11  specialized  ability,  skill,  training and knowledge, which necessitate
    12  that vacancies in the emergency medical services  in  the  positions  of
    13  Supervising  Emergency  Medical  Service Specialist Level II (Captains),
    14  Deputy Chief, Division Chief, and Division Commander, shall be filled as
    15  far as practicable by promotion from among persons  holding  competitive
    16  class  positions in a lower grade in the department in which the vacancy
    17  exists, provided that such lower grade positions are in direct  line  of
    18  promotion, as determined by the department or municipal commission.
    19    2.  Promotion  shall  be  based  on merit and fitness as determined by
    20  competitive examination, due weight being given to seniority. The previ-
    21  ous training and experience of the candidates, and  performance  ratings
    22  where  available,  may  be considered and given due weight as factors in
    23  determining the relative merit and fitness of candidates for promotion.
    24    3. Any permanent competitive employee holding a provisional or discre-
    25  tionary appointment in the affected supervisory titles of the  emergency
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD10124-01-9
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     1  medical  service  described  in subdivision one of this section shall be
     2  given the opportunity to participate in a competitive promotional  exam-
     3  ination for the next higher level title.
     4    4.  Except  as  provided  above,  the provisions of this chapter shall
     5  apply to employees covered by this section.
     6    § 2. This act shall take effect on the  same  date  and  in  the  same
     7  manner  as a chapter of the laws of 2018, amending the civil service law
     8  relating to the appointment and promotion of supervisors of the emergen-
     9  cy medical service, as proposed in legislative bills numbers  S.  5118-B
    10  and A. 6990-A, takes effect.