Assembly Bill A9367

Signed By Governor
2013-2014 Legislative Session

Relates to employment, by municipalities, of persons with disabilities

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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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2013-A9367 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S6998
Law Section:
Civil Service Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §55-a, Civ Serv L

2013-A9367 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to employment, by municipalities, of persons with disabilities; allows persons with disabilities who have held a position in the non-competitive class to be treated as holding a position in the competitive class in certain situations.

2013-A9367 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  9367

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                             April 23, 2014
                               ___________

Introduced by M. of A. ABBATE -- read once and referred to the Committee
  on Governmental Employees

AN  ACT  to  amend  the  civil service law, in relation to employment of
  persons with disabilities by municipalities

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

  Section  1. Section 55-a of the civil service law is amended by adding
a new subdivision 5 to read as follows:
  5. NOTWITHSTANDING ANY OTHER PROVISION OF LAW, A MUNICIPAL  COMMISSION
SHALL  TREAT  EMPLOYEES  APPOINTED  PURSUANT  TO  THE PROVISIONS OF THIS
SECTION, WHO ARE HOLDING OR WHO HAVE HELD A POSITION IN THE NON-COMPETI-
TIVE CLASS, AS IF THEY WERE EMPLOYEES IN THE  COMPETITIVE  CLASS  WHERE,
BECAUSE  OF  ECONOMY, CONSOLIDATION, OR ABOLITION OF FUNCTIONS, CURTAIL-
MENT OF ACTIVITIES OR OTHERWISE, A NUMBER OF SUCH  POSITIONS  IN  EITHER
THE  NON-COMPETITIVE  OR COMPETITIVE CLASSES ARE ABOLISHED OR REDUCED IN
RANK OR SALARY GRADE, SUSPENSION OR DEMOTION,  AS  FURTHER  PROVIDED  IN
TITLE  C OF ARTICLE FIVE OF THIS CHAPTER. FOR PURPOSES OF SENIORITY, THE
DATE AN EMPLOYEE IS APPOINTED PURSUANT TO THIS SECTION, SHALL BE  DEEMED
EQUIVALENT  TO  THE  DATE  A  COMPETITIVE  EMPLOYEE IS APPOINTED FROM AN
ELIGIBLE LIST.
  S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.





 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD14518-01-4

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