Bill Text: OH HB162 | 2011-2012 | 129th General Assembly | Introduced
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Bill Title: To provide certain professional licensing and certification rights to service members, spouses of service members, and veterans, and to eliminate the requirement that a veteran be a resident of Ohio to qualify to receive the veterans preference on civil service examinations.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 51-33)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2011-06-24 - To State & Local Government & Veterans Affairs [HB162 Detail]
Download: Ohio-2011-HB162-Introduced.html
As Introduced
A BILL
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF OHIO:
Bill Title: To provide certain professional licensing and certification rights to service members, spouses of service members, and veterans, and to eliminate the requirement that a veteran be a resident of Ohio to qualify to receive the veterans preference on civil service examinations.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 51-33)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2011-06-24 - To State & Local Government & Veterans Affairs [HB162 Detail]
Download: Ohio-2011-HB162-Introduced.html
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Representatives Stebelton, Bubp
Cosponsors:
Representatives Adams, J., Antonio, Barnes, Blessing, Butler, Carey, Combs, Derickson, Dovilla, Fende, Murray, Newbold, Pillich, Rosenberger
To amend section 124.23 of the Revised Code to | 1 |
eliminate the requirement that a veteran be a | 2 |
resident of Ohio to qualify to receive the | 3 |
veterans preference on civil service examinations. | 4 |
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF OHIO:
Section 1. That section 124.23 of the Revised Code be amended | 5 |
to read as follows: | 6 |
Sec. 124.23. (A) All applicants for positions and places in | 7 |
the classified service shall be subject to examination, except for | 8 |
applicants for positions as professional or certified service and | 9 |
paraprofessional employees of county boards of developmental | 10 |
disabilities, who shall be hired in the manner provided in section | 11 |
124.241 of the Revised Code. | 12 |
(B) Any examination administered under this section shall be | 13 |
public and be open to all citizens of the United States and those | 14 |
persons who have legally declared their intentions of becoming | 15 |
United States citizens. For examinations administered for | 16 |
positions in the service of the state, the director of | 17 |
administrative services may determine certain limitations as to | 18 |
citizenship, age, experience, education, health, habit, and moral | 19 |
character. | 20 |
(C) Any person who has completed service in the uniformed | 21 |
services | 22 |
services or transferred to the reserve with evidence of | 23 |
satisfactory service | 24 |
member of the national guard or a reserve component of the armed | 25 |
forces of the United States who has completed more than one | 26 |
hundred eighty days of active duty service pursuant to an | 27 |
executive order of the president of the United States or an act of | 28 |
the congress of the United States may file with the director a | 29 |
certificate of service or honorable discharge, and, upon this | 30 |
filing, the person shall receive additional credit of twenty per | 31 |
cent of the person's total grade given in the regular examination | 32 |
in which the person receives a passing grade. | 33 |
As used in this division, "service in the uniformed services" | 34 |
and "uniformed services" have the same meanings as in the | 35 |
"Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act of | 36 |
1994," 108 Stat. 3149, 38 U.S.C.A. 4303. | 37 |
(D) An examination may include an evaluation of such factors | 38 |
as education, training, capacity, knowledge, manual dexterity, and | 39 |
physical or psychological fitness. An examination shall consist of | 40 |
one or more tests in any combination. Tests may be written, oral, | 41 |
physical, demonstration of skill, or an evaluation of training and | 42 |
experiences and shall be designed to fairly test the relative | 43 |
capacity of the persons examined to discharge the particular | 44 |
duties of the position for which appointment is sought. Tests may | 45 |
include structured interviews, assessment centers, work | 46 |
simulations, examinations of knowledge, skills, and abilities, and | 47 |
any other acceptable testing methods. If minimum or maximum | 48 |
requirements are established for any examination, they shall be | 49 |
specified in the examination announcement. | 50 |
(E) The director of administrative services shall have | 51 |
control of all examinations administered for positions in the | 52 |
service of the state and all other examinations the director | 53 |
administers as provided in section 124.07 of the Revised Code, | 54 |
except as otherwise provided in sections 124.01 to 124.64 of the | 55 |
Revised Code. | 56 |
(F) No questions in any examination shall relate to political | 57 |
or religious opinions or affiliations. No credit for seniority, | 58 |
efficiency, or any other reason shall be added to an applicant's | 59 |
examination grade unless the applicant achieves at least the | 60 |
minimum passing grade on the examination without counting that | 61 |
extra credit. | 62 |
(G) Except as otherwise provided in sections 124.01 to 124.64 | 63 |
of the Revised Code, the director of administrative services shall | 64 |
give reasonable notice of the time, place, and general scope of | 65 |
every competitive examination for appointment that the director | 66 |
administers for positions in the service of the state. The | 67 |
director shall send written, printed, or electronic notices of | 68 |
every examination to be conducted for positions in the classified | 69 |
civil service of the state to each agency of the type the director | 70 |
of job and family services specifies and, in the case of a county | 71 |
in which no such agency is located, to the clerk of the court of | 72 |
common pleas of that county and to the clerk of each city located | 73 |
within that county. Those notices shall be posted in conspicuous | 74 |
public places in the designated agencies or the courthouse, and | 75 |
city hall of the cities, of the counties in which no designated | 76 |
agency is located for at least two weeks preceding any examination | 77 |
involved, and in a conspicuous place in the office of the director | 78 |
of administrative services for at least two weeks preceding any | 79 |
examination involved. In case of examinations limited by the | 80 |
director to a district, county, city, or department, the director | 81 |
shall provide by rule for adequate publicity of an examination in | 82 |
the district, county, city, or department within which competition | 83 |
is permitted. | 84 |
Section 2. That existing section 124.23 of the Revised Code | 85 |
is hereby repealed. | 86 |
Section 3. Section 124.23 of the Revised Code is presented | 87 |
in this act as a composite of the section as amended by both Am. | 88 |
Sub. H.B. 1 and Sub. S.B. 79 of the 128th General Assembly. The | 89 |
General Assembly, applying the principle stated in division (B) of | 90 |
section 1.52 of the Revised Code that amendments are to be | 91 |
harmonized if reasonably capable of simultaneous operation, finds | 92 |
that the composite is the resulting version of the section in | 93 |
effect prior to the effective date of the section as presented in | 94 |
this act. | 95 |