Assembly Bill A9243

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Relates to updating civil service examinations

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Current Bill Status - In Assembly Committee

  • 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-A9243 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Governmental Employees
Law Section:
Civil Service Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §50, Civ Serv L

2023-A9243 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Directs the civil service department to review and update the questions on the civil service examination not less than every five years.

2023-A9243 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   9243
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 22, 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  updating  civil
   service examinations
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 6 of section 50 of the civil  service  law,  as
 added by chapter 790 of the laws of 1958, is amended to read as follows:
   6.  Scope  of  examinations.  Examinations shall be practical in their
 character and shall relate to those matters which will fairly  test  the
 relative  capacity  and fitness of the persons examined to discharge the
 duties of that service into which they seek to be appointed.  The  state
 civil  service  department  or  appropriate municipal commission, as the
 case may be, may establish an eligible list  on  the  basis  of  ratings
 received  by  the candidates in the competitive portions of the examina-
 tion and thereafter conduct  medical,  physical  and  other  appropriate
 non-competitive  qualifying  tests  from  time  to  time as the need for
 certifications from the eligible list may require. BEGINNING IN THE YEAR
 TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-FIVE, THE DEPARTMENT SHALL  REVIEW  AND  UPDATE  THE
 QUESTIONS CONTAINED WITHIN THE EXAMINATION, AS DEEMED APPROPRIATE BY THE
 DEPARTMENT, NO LESS THAN EVERY FIVE YEARS. NOTHING IN THIS SECTION SHALL
 PROHIBIT  THE  DEPARTMENT  FROM  REVIEWING  OR UPDATING THE EXAMINATIONS
 PRIOR TO THE SCHEDULED UPDATE, AS THE DEPARTMENT DEEMS APPROPRIATE.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD14545-01-4

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