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.
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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I N A S S E M B L Y
April 23, 2026
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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 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
separately amended by section 1 of part T of chapter 55 and chapter 521
of the laws of 2023, is amended to read as follows:
1. The commission may determine up to [seventeen hundred] FIVE THOU-
SAND 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 desig-
nated 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 disa-
bility. The number of persons appointed pursuant to this section shall
not exceed [seventeen hundred] FIVE THOUSAND.
§ 2. Subdivision 1 of section 55-c of the civil service law, as sepa-
rately amended by chapters 521 and 618 of the laws of 2023, 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. 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 classi-
fied in the noncompetitive class, and may be filled only by veterans of
the armed forces of the United States (a) who establish by appropriate
documentary evidence that they are disabled veterans, as defined in
paragraph (b) of subdivision one of section eighty-five of this chapter,
or (b) by those veterans, as defined in paragraph (a) of subdivision one
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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