NY State Senate Bill 2021-S7386

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

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Date of Action	Assembly Actions - Lowercase Senate Actions - UPPERCASE
Jan 05, 2022	referred to civil service and pensions
Sep 17, 2021	referred to rules

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2021-S7386 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:: A8157
Current Committee:: Senate Civil Service And Pensions
Law Section:: Civil Service Law
Laws Affected:: Amd §§55-b & 55-c, Civ Serv L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:: 2023-2024: S2497, A441
2025-2026: S5459, A6837

2021-S7386 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to employment of persons and veterans with disabilities by the state; provides up to five thousand positions may be filled by persons with a physical or mental disability and up to two thousand positions may be filled by disabled veterans and veterans with disabilities.

2021-S7386 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                
 
BILL NUMBER: S7386

SPONSOR: MANNION
 
TITLE OF BILL:

An act to amend the civil service law, in relation to employment of
persons and veterans with disabilities by the state

 
PURPOSE:

To increase employment opportunities for people with disabilities and
veterans with disabilities

 
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:

Section 1. Amend Section 55-b of the civil service law to raise the cap
of identified titles from 1200 to 5000.

Section 2. Amend Section 55-c of the civil service law to raise the cap
of identified titles from 500 to 2000.

Section 3. Effective Date

 
JUSTIFICATION:

The Department of Civil Service is empowered to set aside positions that
can be performed by people and veterans with disabilities under civil
service law sections 55-b and 55-c. Existing law provides that the
Department may set aside up to 1,200 positions for people with disabili-
ties and 500 positions for veterans with disabilities.

The last time the Legislature raised the caps on the number of positions
the Department could set aside through the 55-b program was over 30
years ago (L 1990 Ch 354). Since then, unemployment and underemployment
of New Yorkers with disabilities has persisted.  Recent reports from the
NYS Comptroller's office found that from April 2020 to March 2021 unem-
ployment skyrocketed to 16.2% for New Yorkers with disabilities,
compared to 11.3% unemployment in the general population. As the state's
economy rebounds after the COVID-19 pandemic, we should lead by example
and create more opportunities for these New Yorkers to work, if they
wish to do so.

 
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

L 1990 Ch 354

 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:

None  
EFFECTIVE DATE:
Immediate.

2021-S7386 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7386
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                            September 17, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. MANNION -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
 
 AN ACT to amend the civil service law,  in  relation  to  employment  of
   persons and veterans with disabilities by the state
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 55-b of the civil service law,  as
 amended  by  chapter  603  of  the  laws  of 1995, is amended to read as
 follows:
   1. The commission may determine up to [twelve hundred]  FIVE  THOUSAND
 positions  with  duties such as can be performed by persons with a phys-
 ical or mental disability who are found otherwise qualified  to  perform
 satisfactorily  the duties of any such position. Upon such determination
 the said positions shall be classified in the noncompetitive class,  and
 may  be  filled  only  by  persons  who shall have been certified by the
 employee health service of the department as being a person with  either
 a physical or mental disability.  The number of persons appointed pursu-
 ant to this section shall not exceed [twelve hundred] FIVE THOUSAND.
   §  2.  Subdivision  1  of  section  55-c  of the civil service law, as
 amended by chapter 340 of the laws  of  2008,  is  amended  to  read  as
 follows:
   1.  The  commission  may  determine  up to [five hundred] TWO THOUSAND
 positions with duties such as can be performed by disabled veterans  and
 veterans  with disabilities who are found otherwise qualified to perform
 satisfactorily the duties of any such position. Upon such determination,
 the said positions shall be classified in the noncompetitive class,  and
 may  be filled only by veterans of the armed forces of the United States
 who served therein during time of war, as defined in  paragraph  (c)  of
 subdivision  one  of  section  eighty-five  of this chapter, and (a) who
 establish by appropriate documentary evidence  that  they  are  disabled
 veterans,  as  defined  in  paragraph  (b) of subdivision one of section
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

                                                            LBD11540-01-1

 S. 7386                             2
 
 eighty-five of this chapter, or (b) by those  veterans,  as  defined  in
 paragraph (a) of subdivision one of section eighty-five of this chapter,
 who  shall  have  been  certified  by the employee health service of the
 department  as  being  disabled  but capable of performing the duties of
 said positions.  Priority in certification and  referral  of  both  such
 disabled  veterans  and certified disabled but capable veterans shall be
 given to those veterans who received a wound in combat, as documented by
 the awarding of the purple heart, as authorized  by  the  United  States
 department of defense, and that wound is the cause of, or a substantial-
 ly  contributing factor to, the degree of impairment, who otherwise meet
 the requirements of this  section.  The  number  of  veterans  appointed
 pursuant to this section shall not exceed [five hundred] TWO THOUSAND.
   § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.

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John W. Mannion

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

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2021-S7386 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

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