Assembly Bill A6480

Signed By Governor
2023-2024 Legislative Session

Allows an individual with disabilities or a disabled veteran to hold full-time or part-time positions for purposes of eligibility for recruitment for state employment

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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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2023-A6480 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S6482
Law Section:
Civil Service Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§55-b, 55-c & 59-d, Civ Serv L

2023-A6480 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Allows an individual with disabilities or a disabled veteran to hold full-time or part-time positions for purposes of eligibility for recruitment for state employment.

2023-A6480 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6480
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              April 11, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. BURDICK -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Governmental Employees
 
 AN ACT to amend the civil service law, in relation to allowing an  indi-
   vidual  with  disabilities  or a disabled veteran to hold full-time or
   part-time positions for purposes of eligibility  for  recruitment  for
   state employment

   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  positions  with
 duties  such  as  can  be performed by persons with a physical or mental
 disability who are found otherwise qualified to  perform  satisfactorily
 the  duties  of  any  such  position.  POSITIONS DESIGNATED TO BE FILLED
 PURSUANT TO THIS SECTION MAY BE  FILLED  ON  A  FULL-TIME  OR  PART-TIME
 BASIS. 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 pursuant to this section shall  not  exceed  twelve
 hundred.
   §  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 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.  POSITIONS DESIGNATED TO BE FILLED
 PURSUANT TO THIS SECTION MAY BE  FILLED  ON  A  FULL-TIME  OR  PART-TIME
 BASIS.  Upon  such determination, the said positions shall be classified

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD09831-02-3
              

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