Bill Text: NY A07480 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Requires an annual report to the chair of the senate finance committee and chair of the assembly ways and means committee detailing the use of temporary employees by state agencies for the previous calendar year.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 13-2)

Status: (Vetoed) 2011-09-23 - tabled [A07480 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-A07480-Amended.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                        7480--A
                              2011-2012 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                      May 6, 2011
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       Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  DenDEKKER  --  read once and referred to the
         Committee on Governmental  Employees  --  committee  discharged,  bill
         amended,  ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
         tee
       AN ACT to amend the civil service law, in relation to temporary employee
         reporting
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  The  civil service law is amended by adding a new section
    2  153 to read as follows:
    3    S 153. TEMPORARY EMPLOYEE REPORTING. 1. DEFINITIONS. FOR THE  PURPOSES
    4  OF THIS SECTION THE FOLLOWING DEFINITIONS SHALL APPLY:
    5    (A)  "STATE  AGENCIES" SHALL MEAN ANY DEPARTMENT, BOARD, BUREAU, DIVI-
    6  SION, COMMISSION, COUNCIL, OR COMMITTEE WITHIN THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH, THE
    7  STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK,  AND  ALL  PUBLIC  AUTHORITIES  UNDER  THE
    8  CONTROL OF THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH.
    9    (B)  "TEMPORARY  EMPLOYMENT  SERVICE"  SHALL  MEAN  A  BUSINESS  WHICH
   10  RECRUITS AND HIRES ITS OWN EMPLOYEES, AND  ASSIGNS  THOSE  EMPLOYEES  TO
   11  PERFORM WORK AT OR SERVICES FOR OTHER BUSINESSES OR PUBLIC ENTITIES.
   12    (C)  "TEMPORARY  EMPLOYEE" SHALL MEAN AN EMPLOYEE ASSIGNED TO WORK FOR
   13  THE CLIENT OR CLIENTS OF A TEMPORARY EMPLOYMENT SERVICE.
   14    2. THE HEAD OF THE DIVISION OF THE BUDGET,  IN  CONJUNCTION  WITH  THE
   15  PRESIDENT OF THE CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION, SHALL SUBMIT AN ANNUAL REPORT
   16  TO  THE  CHAIR OF THE SENATE FINANCE COMMITTEE AND CHAIR OF THE ASSEMBLY
   17  WAYS AND MEANS COMMITTEE NO LATER  THAN  FEBRUARY  FIRST  OF  EACH  YEAR
   18  DETAILING  THE  USE  OF  TEMPORARY  EMPLOYEES  BY STATE AGENCIES FOR THE
   19  PREVIOUS CALENDAR YEAR. THE REPORT SHALL INCLUDE, BUT NOT BE LIMITED TO:
   20    (A) THE TOTAL AMOUNT OF EXPENDITURES FOR ALL STATE AGENCIES FOR TEMPO-
   21  RARY EMPLOYMENT SERVICES FOR THE PREVIOUS CALENDAR YEAR;
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD11341-02-1
       A. 7480--A                          2
    1    (B) AN ITEMIZED REPORT FOR EACH STATE AGENCY  LISTING  THE  AMOUNT  OF
    2  EXPENDITURES FOR TEMPORARY EMPLOYMENT SERVICES FOR THE PREVIOUS CALENDAR
    3  YEAR;
    4    (C)  AN  ITEMIZED  REPORT  FOR EACH STATE AGENCY LISTING THE AMOUNT OF
    5  EXPENDITURES FOR EACH TEMPORARY EMPLOYEE FOR THE PREVIOUS CALENDAR YEAR;
    6    (D) THE JOB TITLES THAT TEMPORARY EMPLOYEES WERE  EMPLOYED  IN  AND  A
    7  DESCRIPTION  OF  THE  DUTIES PERFORMED BY THE TEMPORARY WORKER INCLUDING
    8  WHETHER THE JOB TITLE IS IN THE COMPETITIVE OR NON-COMPETITIVE CLASS; IN
    9  THE EVENT A JOB TITLE IS NOT AVAILABLE A DESCRIPTION OF JOB DUTIES SHALL
   10  BE INCLUDED;
   11    (E) AN ITEMIZED LISTING OF ALL VACANT POSITIONS FOR EACH STATE  AGENCY
   12  THAT  UTILIZED  ANY  TEMPORARY EMPLOYEES FOR THE PREVIOUS CALENDAR YEAR;
   13  AND
   14    (F) THE LENGTH OF TIME EACH TEMPORARY EMPLOYEE WAS ASSIGNED TO A STATE
   15  AGENCY BY A TEMPORARY EMPLOYMENT SERVICE FOR THE PREVIOUS CALENDAR YEAR;
   16  HOWEVER, IF A TEMPORARY EMPLOYEE HAS BEEN ASSIGNED TO A STATE AGENCY  BY
   17  A  TEMPORARY EMPLOYMENT SERVICE FOR A TIME PERIOD LONGER THAN THE PREVI-
   18  OUS CALENDAR YEAR THEN THE REPORT SHALL LIST THE ENTIRE LENGTH  OF  TIME
   19  THE TEMPORARY EMPLOYEE HAS BEEN ASSIGNED TO A STATE AGENCY.
   20    3. SUCH REPORT SHALL BE MADE AVAILABLE TO THE PUBLIC ON THE DEPARTMENT
   21  OF CIVIL SERVICE PUBLIC WEBSITE.
   22    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.