Bill Text: NY S02497 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to employment of persons and veterans with disabilities by the state; provides up to five thousand positions may be filled by persons with a physical or mental disability and up to two thousand positions may be filled by disabled veterans and veterans with disabilities.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO CIVIL SERVICE AND PENSIONS [S02497 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S02497-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2497

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 20, 2023
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        Introduced  by  Sens. MANNION, CLEARE -- read twice and ordered printed,
          and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Civil Service and
          Pensions

        AN ACT to amend the civil service law,  in  relation  to  employment  of
          persons and veterans with disabilities by the state

          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 55-b of the civil service law,  as
     2  amended  by  chapter  603  of  the  laws  of 1995, is amended to read as
     3  follows:
     4    1. The commission may determine up to [twelve hundred]  five  thousand
     5  positions  with  duties such as can be performed by persons with a phys-
     6  ical or mental disability who are found otherwise qualified  to  perform
     7  satisfactorily  the duties of any such position. Upon such determination
     8  the said positions shall be classified in the noncompetitive class,  and
     9  may  be  filled  only  by  persons  who shall have been certified by the
    10  employee health service of the department as being a person with  either
    11  a physical or mental disability.  The number of persons appointed pursu-
    12  ant to this section shall not exceed [twelve hundred] five thousand.
    13    §  2.  Subdivision  1  of  section  55-c  of the civil service law, as
    14  amended by chapter 340 of the laws  of  2008,  is  amended  to  read  as
    15  follows:
    16    1.  The  commission  may  determine  up to [five hundred] two thousand
    17  positions with duties such as can be performed by disabled veterans  and
    18  veterans  with disabilities who are found otherwise qualified to perform
    19  satisfactorily the duties of any such position. Upon such determination,
    20  the said positions shall be classified in the noncompetitive class,  and
    21  may  be filled only by veterans of the armed forces of the United States
    22  who served therein during time of war, as defined in  paragraph  (c)  of
    23  subdivision  one  of  section  eighty-five  of this chapter, and (a) who
    24  establish by appropriate documentary evidence  that  they  are  disabled

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD02475-01-3
        S. 2497                             2

     1  veterans,  as  defined  in  paragraph  (b) of subdivision one of section
     2  eighty-five of this chapter, or (b) by those  veterans,  as  defined  in
     3  paragraph (a) of subdivision one of section eighty-five of this chapter,
     4  who  shall  have  been  certified  by the employee health service of the
     5  department as being disabled but capable of  performing  the  duties  of
     6  said  positions.    Priority  in certification and referral of both such
     7  disabled veterans and certified disabled but capable veterans  shall  be
     8  given to those veterans who received a wound in combat, as documented by
     9  the  awarding  of  the  purple heart, as authorized by the United States
    10  department of defense, and that wound is the cause of, or a substantial-
    11  ly contributing factor to, the degree of impairment, who otherwise  meet
    12  the  requirements  of  this  section.  The  number of veterans appointed
    13  pursuant to this section shall not exceed [five hundred] two thousand.
    14    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.