Bill Text: NY A09243 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Directs the civil service department to review and update the questions on the civil service examination not less than every five years.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-02-22 - referred to governmental employees [A09243 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A09243-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          9243

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 22, 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  updating  civil
          service examinations

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

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 6 of section 50 of the civil  service  law,  as
     2  added by chapter 790 of the laws of 1958, is amended to read as follows:
     3    6.  Scope  of  examinations.  Examinations shall be practical in their
     4  character and shall relate to those matters which will fairly  test  the
     5  relative  capacity  and fitness of the persons examined to discharge the
     6  duties of that service into which they seek to be appointed.  The  state
     7  civil  service  department  or  appropriate municipal commission, as the
     8  case may be, may establish an eligible list  on  the  basis  of  ratings
     9  received  by  the candidates in the competitive portions of the examina-
    10  tion and thereafter conduct  medical,  physical  and  other  appropriate
    11  non-competitive  qualifying  tests  from  time  to  time as the need for
    12  certifications from the eligible list may require. Beginning in the year
    13  two thousand twenty-five, the department shall  review  and  update  the
    14  questions contained within the examination, as deemed appropriate by the
    15  department, no less than every five years. Nothing in this section shall
    16  prohibit  the  department  from  reviewing  or updating the examinations
    17  prior to the scheduled update, as the department deems appropriate.
    18    § 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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