Assembly Bill A8876

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Requires that applicants not be prohibited from taking competitive civil service exams

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    • On Floor Calendar Senate
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  • Delivered to Governor
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2023-A8876 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S8216
Law Section:
Civil Service Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §54, Civ Serv L

2023-A8876 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires that applicants not be prohibited from taking competitive civil service exams if they will meet the minimum age requirement or attain the minimum education requirement within twelve months.

2023-A8876 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8876
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 26, 2024
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of A. PHEFFER AMATO -- read once and referred to the
   Committee on Governmental Employees
 
 AN ACT to amend the civil service law, in relation to establishing time-
   line standards for candidates to take competitive examinations
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section  1. Section 54 of the civil service law, as amended by chapter
 278 of the laws of 1994, is amended to read as follows:
   § 54. Age  AND  EDUCATIONAL  requirements.  1.   Notwithstanding   any
 provision of law to the contrary, except as herein provided, neither the
 state  civil  service department nor the state civil service commission,
 nor any municipal civil  service  commission  shall  prohibit,  prevent,
 disqualify,  or  discriminate  against, any person who is physically and
 mentally qualified, from participating in a civil service examination or
 from qualifying for a position  in  the  classified  civil  service,  or
 penalize  any such person in a final rating by reason of his or her age;
 and any such rule, requirement, resolution, regulation  or  penalization
 shall  be  void.  Nothing  herein  contained, however, shall prevent the
 adoption of reasonable minimum or  maximum  age  requirements  for  open
 competitive  examinations  for  positions  where it is determined by the
 department and approved by the commission  that  such  age  requirements
 would be reasonable minimum qualification for such position. Minimum age
 requirements  shall in no case prohibit an applicant who is within [six]
 TWELVE months of the minimum age requirement from taking any competitive
 examination. Nothing herein contained shall be construed to prohibit the
 disqualification, on account of age, of any applicant for a position who
 has reached the mandatory retirement age applicable by law to such posi-
 tion.
   2. MINIMUM EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS SHALL IN NO CASE PROHIBIT AN  APPLI-
 CANT  WHO  IS  WITHIN  TWELVE  MONTHS OF OBTAINING THE MINIMUM EDUCATION
 REQUIREMENTS FROM TAKING ANY COMPETITIVE EXAMINATION.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD14070-01-4

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