Bill Text: NY A09540 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Establishes procedures for the order of suspension or demotion of employees in certain occupations.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Vetoed) 2014-12-17 - tabled [A09540 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-A09540-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         9540
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                      May 6, 2014
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       Introduced by M. of A. ABBATE -- read once and referred to the Committee
         on Governmental Employees
       AN  ACT  to  amend  the  civil service law, in relation to suspension or
         demotion upon the abolition or reduction of positions
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1. Section 80 of the civil service law is amended by adding a
    2  new subdivision 1-f to read as follows:
    3    1-F.  NOTWITHSTANDING  THE  PROVISIONS  OF  SUBDIVISION  ONE  OF  THIS
    4  SECTION,  EMPLOYEES OF THE CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK,
    5  APPOINTED TO THE TITLES OF OCCUPATIONAL THERAPIST-DOE OR PHYSICAL THERA-
    6  PIST-DOE, SHALL BE SUBJECT TO THE FOLLOWING PROCEDURE: WHERE, BECAUSE OF
    7  ECONOMY, CONSOLIDATION OR ABOLITION OF FUNCTION, CURTAILMENT  OF  ACTIV-
    8  ITIES OR OTHERWISE, POSITIONS IN THE COMPETITIVE CLASS ARE ABOLISHED, OR
    9  REDUCED IN RANK OR SALARY GRADE, SUSPENSION OR DEMOTION, AS THE CASE MAY
   10  BE,  AMONG  INCUMBENTS  HOLDING  THE SAME OR SIMILAR POSITIONS, SHALL BE
   11  MADE IN THE INVERSE ORDER OF ORIGINAL APPOINTMENT ON A  PERMANENT  BASIS
   12  IN THE GRADE OR TITLE IN THE SERVICE OF THE GOVERNMENTAL JURISDICTION IN
   13  WHICH  SUCH  ABOLITION  OR REDUCTION OF POSITIONS OCCURS, SUBJECT TO THE
   14  PROVISIONS OF SUBDIVISION SEVEN OF SECTION EIGHTY-FIVE OF THIS  CHAPTER;
   15  PROVIDED,  HOWEVER,  THAT  IF ANY PERSON SO EMPLOYED WAS EMPLOYED IN THE
   16  TITLE OF  OCCUPATIONAL  THERAPIST-DOE,  PHYSICAL  THERAPIST-DOE,  SENIOR
   17  OCCUPATIONAL THERAPIST-DOE, SENIOR PHYSICAL THERAPIST-DOE OR SUPERVISING
   18  THERAPIST  PRIOR TO THE FIRST DAY OF JANUARY, TWO THOUSAND FOURTEEN, FOR
   19  PURPOSES OF THIS SUBDIVISION REGARDING PRIORITY OF RETENTION AND FOR  NO
   20  OTHER PURPOSE, THE DATE OF ORIGINAL APPOINTMENT OF ANY SUCH PERSON SHALL
   21  BE  DEEMED  TO  BE THE DATE SUCH EMPLOYMENT COMMENCED PRIOR TO THE FIRST
   22  DAY OF JANUARY, TWO THOUSAND FOURTEEN.
   23    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD14988-01-4