Assembly Bill A4025

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Allows municipal commissions to use alternate lists for filling vacancies with resident and non-resident minority group members and women in order to achieve diversity in police departments

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2017-A4025 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S3341
Current Committee:
Assembly Governmental Employees
Law Section:
Civil Service Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §23, Civ Serv L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A4038, S5744
2011-2012: A2754, S3783
2013-2014: A2758, S3340
2015-2016: A2804, S2037
2019-2020: A1432, S1648
2021-2022: S1797
2023-2024: S969

2017-A4025 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Allows municipal commissions to use alternate lists for filling vacancies with resident and non-resident minority group members and women in order to achieve diversity in police departments.

2017-A4025 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4025
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 30, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. PRETLOW, WALKER, PICHARDO, STECK, CRESPO, ARROYO,
   COOK,  PEOPLES-STOKES, WRIGHT -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. BLAKE,
   SIMON -- read once and  referred  to  the  Committee  on  Governmental
   Employees
 
 AN  ACT to amend the civil service law, in relation to appointments from
   eligible lists

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivision  4 of section 23 of the civil service law, as
 amended by chapter 403 of the laws of 2011, is amended and a new  subdi-
 vision 4-c is added to read as follows:
   4. Use of state and county eligible lists, AS THE SOURCE OF NEW HIRES,
 by  municipal  commissions. A municipal commission, in the absence of an
 eligible list of its own, may request the state  civil  service  depart-
 ment,  county  civil  service  commission or county personnel officer to
 furnish it with the names of persons on  an  appropriate  eligible  list
 established  by  the department, commission or personnel officer, which,
 if so requested by the municipal commission, shall be limited  to  resi-
 dents  of  the city, or town or civil division in which appointments are
 to be made, or to residents of the county or judicial district in  which
 such  city,  town  or  civil  division  is located, or to any reasonable
 combination of political subdivisions both in and outside  of  New  York
 state  contiguous  to the city or civil division in which appointment is
 to be made or contiguous to the political subdivision in which such city
 or civil division is located, except for the  position  of  director  of
 facilities  I,  II,  & III of a school district located within the state
 which shall use the list  developed  pursuant  to  subdivision  five  of
 section seventeen of this [chapter] TITLE. Such municipal commission may
 certify  such names for appointment to a position under its jurisdiction
 in the same manner as certifications are made from the eligible lists of
 such commission. If the state civil  service  department,  county  civil
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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