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                                   5439
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 16, 2021
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 Introduced  by M. of A. EPSTEIN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Governmental Employees
 
 AN ACT to direct the department of civil service to conduct a  study  to
   determine the number of people with a disability employed by agencies;
   and  providing  for  the repeal of such provisions upon the expiration
   thereof

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. 1. The following terms when used in this act shall have the
 following meanings:
   (a)  "disability"  shall  have  the same meaning as section 292 of the
 executive law; and
   (b) "agency" shall mean any  department,  board,  bureau,  commission,
 division,  office,  council,  committee,  public  benefit corporation or
 public authority at least one of  whose  members  is  appointed  by  the
 governor.
   2. (a) The department of civil service shall conduct a study to deter-
 mine  the  number  of people with a disability employed by an agency and
 shall make a report including any recommendations to increase the number
 of people with disabilities employed by such agencies.
   (b) Such report shall also include but not be limited to:
   (i) the total number of employees in the state with a disability;
   (ii) an agency  by  agency  breakdown  containing  the  percentage  of
 employees with a disability;
   (iii) a breakdown of the number of employees with a disability who are
 part of the civil service;
   (iv)  a breakdown of the number of employees with a disability who are
 management confidential; and
   (v) a breakdown of the number of employees with a disability who serve
 in a supervisory role.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD08843-01-1
              

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   3. The department of civil service may request, and is  authorized  to
 receive,  any  information from any agency that is relevant and material
 to the completion of  such  study.  Such  information  received  by  the
 department  of  civil  service shall be subject to the same requirements
 for confidentiality and limitations on use, if any, as are applicable to
 such  agency's  use  of such information and may only be utilized by the
 department and the commissioner of civil service for purposes authorized
 by this section.
   4. The department of civil service shall  issue  such  report  to  the
 governor,  the  temporary  president  of  the senate, the speaker of the
 assembly, the minority leader of the senate and the minority  leader  of
 the assembly no later than one year from the effective date of this act.
 The  contents  of such report shall not contain the personally identifi-
 able information of any individual.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall  expire  and  be
 deemed repealed two years after such date.