Assembly Bill A3610

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                  3610

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            January 27, 2009
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Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  EDDINGTON  --  read once and referred to the
  Committee on Labor

AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to granting a waiver  of  the
  civil service examination fee to displaced homemakers

  THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1. The labor law is amended by adding a new section  827-a  to
read as follows:
  S  827-A. CIVIL SERVICE EXAMINATION FEE; WAIVER FOR DISPLACED HOMEMAK-
ERS. 1. THE COMMISSIONER, IN CONSULTATION WITH THE STATE  CIVIL  SERVICE
DEPARTMENT, SHALL ESTABLISH A PROGRAM WAIVING THE CIVIL SERVICE EXAMINA-
TION  FEE  FOR (A) PERSONS WHO HAVE SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETED THE DISPLACED
HOMEMAKERS PROGRAM, OR (B) FOR PERSONS WHO HAVE  SUCCESSFULLY  COMPLETED
ANY  PUBLIC  AND PRIVATE JOB TRAINING PROGRAM OR OPPORTUNITY PROVIDED BY
THE MULTIPURPOSE SERVICE CENTER AS ESTABLISHED PURSUANT TO SECTION EIGHT
HUNDRED TWENTY-FIVE OF THIS ARTICLE.
  2. THE WAIVER, GRANTED PURSUANT TO SUBDIVISION ONE  OF  THIS  SECTION,
SHALL BE ADMINISTERED BY THE COMMISSIONER, IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE STATE
CIVIL SERVICE DEPARTMENT. EACH SUCH PERSON SHALL BE GRANTED A WAIVER FOR
A  MAXIMUM  OF TWO APPLICATIONS FILED, IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PROVISIONS
OF TITLE A OF ARTICLE FOUR OF THE CIVIL SERVICE LAW, TO  COMPETE  IN  AN
EXAMINATION  FOR A POSITION IN A COMPETITIVE OR NON-COMPETITIVE CLASS OF
CIVIL SERVICE EMPLOYMENT IN THE STATE OF NEW YORK OR ANY OF ITS SUBDIVI-
SIONS, OR IN A LABOR CLASS WHEN EXAMINATION FOR APPOINTMENT IS REQUIRED;
PROVIDED, HOWEVER THAT SUCH APPLICATIONS ARE DULY  FILED  WITHIN  A  ONE
YEAR  PERIOD  FROM  THE  DATE  OF COMPLETION OF THE DISPLACED HOMEMAKERS
PROGRAM OR JOB TRAINING PROGRAM.
  3. ANY PERSON WHO HAS SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETED THE DISPLACED  HOMEMAKERS
PROGRAM  OR  WHO  HAS  SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETED ANY PUBLIC AND PRIVATE JOB
TRAINING PROGRAM OR OPPORTUNITY PROVIDED  BY  THE  MULTIPURPOSE  SERVICE
CENTER  SHALL  BE  ENTITLED  TO  THE  WAIVER,  GRANTED  PURSUANT TO THIS

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD04610-01-9
              

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SECTION, AND SHALL BE ENTITLED TO COMPETE, UNDER THE  TERMS  AND  CONDI-
TIONS  DEEMED  APPROPRIATE  BY  THE STATE DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL SERVICE OR
MUNICIPAL COMMISSION, IN SUCH EXAMINATION FOR WHICH THE APPLICATION  WAS
DULY FILED.
  4.  THE  COMMISSIONER  SHALL  ESTABLISH AND PROMULGATE RULES AND REGU-
LATIONS FOR THE PURPOSE OF ESTABLISHING  AND  CARRYING  OUT  SUCH  CIVIL
SERVICE EXAMINATION FEE WAIVER PROGRAM.
  S 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
it shall have become a law.