Bill Text: NY A08720 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to the method of appointment and promotion from eligible lists.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-13 - referred to governmental employees [A08720 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A08720-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8720
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 13, 2016
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        Introduced  by M. of A. STECK -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Governmental Employees
        AN ACT to amend the civil service law, in  relation  to  the  method  of
          appointment and promotion from eligible lists
          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 61 of the civil  service  law,  as
     2  added by chapter 790 of the laws of 1958, is amended to read as follows:
     3    1. Appointment  or  promotion  from  eligible  lists.  Appointment  or
     4  promotion from an eligible list to a position in the  competitive  class
     5  shall  be made by the selection of one of the three persons certified by
     6  the appropriate civil service commission as  standing  highest  on  such
     7  eligible  list  who are willing to accept such appointment or promotion;
     8  provided, however, that [the] such person's test score is no  more  than
     9  twenty  percent  less than the test score of the person with the highest
    10  test score on such  test.  The  state  or  a  municipal  commission  may
    11  provide,  by rule, that where it is necessary to break ties among eligi-
    12  bles having the same final examination ratings  in  order  to  determine
    13  their   respective  standings  on  the  eligible  list,  appointment  or
    14  promotion may be made by the selection of any eligible whose final exam-
    15  ination rating is equal to or higher than the final  examination  rating
    16  of  the  third highest standing eligible willing to accept such appoint-
    17  ment or promotion. Appointments and promotions shall be  made  from  the
    18  eligible list most nearly appropriate for the position to be filled.
    19    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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