Bill Text: NY A06480 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Allows an individual with disabilities or a disabled veteran to hold full-time or part-time positions for purposes of eligibility for recruitment for state employment.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 16-3)

Status: (Passed) 2023-10-05 - signed chap.521 [A06480 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A06480-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6480

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     April 11, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. BURDICK -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Governmental Employees

        AN ACT to amend the civil service law, in relation to allowing an  indi-
          vidual  with  disabilities  or a disabled veteran to hold full-time or
          part-time positions for purposes of eligibility  for  recruitment  for
          state employment

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

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 55-b of the civil service law,  as
     2  amended  by  chapter  603  of  the  laws  of 1995, is amended to read as
     3  follows:
     4    1. The commission may determine up to twelve  hundred  positions  with
     5  duties  such  as  can  be performed by persons with a physical or mental
     6  disability who are found otherwise qualified to  perform  satisfactorily
     7  the  duties  of  any  such  position.  Positions designated to be filled
     8  pursuant to this section may be  filled  on  a  full-time  or  part-time
     9  basis. Upon such determination the said positions shall be classified in
    10  the  noncompetitive  class,  and may be filled only by persons who shall
    11  have been certified by the employee health service of the department  as
    12  being  a person with either a physical or mental disability.  The number
    13  of persons appointed pursuant to this section shall  not  exceed  twelve
    14  hundred.
    15    §  2.  Subdivision  1  of  section  55-c  of the civil service law, as
    16  amended by chapter 340 of the laws  of  2008,  is  amended  to  read  as
    17  follows:
    18    1. The  commission  may  determine  up  to five hundred positions with
    19  duties such as can be performed by disabled veterans and  veterans  with
    20  disabilities who are found otherwise qualified to perform satisfactorily
    21  the  duties  of  any  such  position.  Positions designated to be filled
    22  pursuant to this section may be  filled  on  a  full-time  or  part-time
    23  basis.  Upon  such determination, the said positions shall be classified

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  in the noncompetitive class, and may be filled only by veterans  of  the
     2  armed forces of the United States who served therein during time of war,
     3  as defined in paragraph (c) of subdivision one of section eighty-five of
     4  this  chapter, and (a) who establish by appropriate documentary evidence
     5  that they are disabled veterans, as defined in paragraph (b) of subdivi-
     6  sion one of section eighty-five of this chapter, or (b) by those  veter-
     7  ans,  as  defined in paragraph (a) of subdivision one of section eighty-
     8  five of this chapter, who shall have  been  certified  by  the  employee
     9  health  service  of  the  department  as  being  disabled but capable of
    10  performing the duties of said positions.  Priority in certification  and
    11  referral of both such disabled veterans and certified disabled but capa-
    12  ble  veterans  shall  be given to those veterans who received a wound in
    13  combat, as documented by the awarding of the purple heart, as authorized
    14  by the United States department of defense, and that wound is the  cause
    15  of, or a substantially contributing factor to, the degree of impairment,
    16  who  otherwise  meet  the  requirements  of  this section. The number of
    17  veterans appointed pursuant  to  this  section  shall  not  exceed  five
    18  hundred.
    19    § 3. Section 59-d of the civil service law, as added by chapter 402 of
    20  the laws of 2022, is amended to read as follows:
    21    §  59-d.  Public  posting  of employment opportunities. The department
    22  shall make publicly available on its  website  all  employment  opportu-
    23  nities  in  the  civil service of the state and information on obtaining
    24  employment with the state, including, but not limited to,  vacancies  in
    25  the  competitive,  non-competitive  and  labor  jurisdictional  classes,
    26  announcements for upcoming  open-competitive  and  promotional  examina-
    27  tions,  test application instructions, and designations of which employ-
    28  ment opportunities are eligible to be filled by individuals  with  disa-
    29  bilities   and   veterans  with  disabilities,  including  whether  such
    30  positions may be filled on a full-time or part-time basis,  pursuant  to
    31  section  fifty-five-b  and section fifty-five-c, as amended by a chapter
    32  [six hundred three] of the laws of [nineteen  hundred  ninety-five]  two
    33  thousand  twenty-three,  of  this  title.  The  president  shall work in
    34  conjunction with the New York state department of labor and  the  gover-
    35  nor's office of employee relations in order to effectuate the provisions
    36  of this section.
    37    §  4. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed-
    38  ing the date upon which it shall have become a law.