Senate Bill S969

2023-2024 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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Current 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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2023-S969 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A6293
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
2011-2012: S3783
2013-2014: S3340
2015-2016: S2037
2017-2018: S3341
2019-2020: S1648
2021-2022: S1797

2023-S969 (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.

2023-S969 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2023-S969 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    969
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              January 9, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  BAILEY -- 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 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
 service commission or county personnel officer, upon the request of such
 commission, has certified an appropriate eligible list to fill a partic-
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD03272-01-3
              

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