Senate Bill S1648

2019-2020 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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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Civil Service And Pensions Committee


  • 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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2019-S1648 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A1432
Current Committee:
Senate Civil Service And Pensions
Law Section:
Civil Service Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §23, Civ Serv L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: S5744, A4038
2011-2012: S3783, A2754
2013-2014: S3340, A2758
2015-2016: S2037, A2804
2017-2018: S3341, A4025
2021-2022: S1797
2023-2024: S969

2019-S1648 (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.

2019-S1648 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2019-S1648 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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     S. 1648                                                  A. 1432
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                       S E N A T E - A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 15, 2019
                                ___________
 
 IN  SENATE -- Introduced by Sen. BAILEY -- read twice and ordered print-
   ed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Civil Service
   and Pensions
 
 IN ASSEMBLY -- 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
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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