Bill Text: NY A08876 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires that applicants not be prohibited from taking competitive civil service exams if they will meet the minimum age requirement or attain the minimum education requirement within twelve months.

Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 15-1)

Status: (Engrossed) 2024-03-13 - RETURNED TO ASSEMBLY [A08876 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A08876-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8876

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 26, 2024
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        Introduced  by  M.  of A. PHEFFER AMATO -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Governmental Employees

        AN ACT to amend the civil service law, in relation to establishing time-
          line standards for candidates to take competitive examinations

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

     1    Section  1. Section 54 of the civil service law, as amended by chapter
     2  278 of the laws of 1994, is amended to read as follows:
     3    § 54. Age  and  educational  requirements.  1.   Notwithstanding   any
     4  provision of law to the contrary, except as herein provided, neither the
     5  state  civil  service department nor the state civil service commission,
     6  nor any municipal civil  service  commission  shall  prohibit,  prevent,
     7  disqualify,  or  discriminate  against, any person who is physically and
     8  mentally qualified, from participating in a civil service examination or
     9  from qualifying for a position  in  the  classified  civil  service,  or
    10  penalize  any such person in a final rating by reason of his or her age;
    11  and any such rule, requirement, resolution, regulation  or  penalization
    12  shall  be  void.  Nothing  herein  contained, however, shall prevent the
    13  adoption of reasonable minimum or  maximum  age  requirements  for  open
    14  competitive  examinations  for  positions  where it is determined by the
    15  department and approved by the commission  that  such  age  requirements
    16  would be reasonable minimum qualification for such position. Minimum age
    17  requirements  shall in no case prohibit an applicant who is within [six]
    18  twelve months of the minimum age requirement from taking any competitive
    19  examination. Nothing herein contained shall be construed to prohibit the
    20  disqualification, on account of age, of any applicant for a position who
    21  has reached the mandatory retirement age applicable by law to such posi-
    22  tion.
    23    2. Minimum education requirements shall in no case prohibit an  appli-
    24  cant  who  is  within  twelve  months of obtaining the minimum education
    25  requirements from taking any competitive examination.
    26    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14070-01-4