S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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4193
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
January 31, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. SAYEGH -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Governmental Employees
AN ACT to amend the civil service law, in relation to providing for
school district employees who have been provisionally appointed to a
position for at least nine months without an exam being offered for
such position to receive a permanent appointment in such position
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Section 65 of the civil service law is amended by adding a
new subdivision 5 to read as follows:
5. PROVISIONAL APPOINTMENTS WITHIN SCHOOL DISTRICTS. NOTWITHSTANDING
ANY INCONSISTENT PROVISION OF THIS CHAPTER OR ANY OTHER LAW OR RULE TO
THE CONTRARY, WHERE A SCHOOL DISTRICT HAS MADE A PROVISIONAL APPOINTMENT
TO A POSITION AND NO CIVIL SERVICE EXAMINATION FOR SUCH POSITION HAS
BEEN CONDUCTED WITHIN NINE MONTHS OF SUCH APPOINTMENT, THE PROVISIONAL
APPOINTMENT SHALL NOT EXPIRE UNDER SUBDIVISION TWO OF THIS SECTION AND
INSTEAD THE PROVISIONAL APPOINTEE SHALL BE APPOINTED TO THE POSITION
PERMANENTLY AND SHALL BE CONSIDERED TO HAVE BEEN APPOINTED CONSISTENT
WITH SECTION SIXTY-ONE OF THIS TITLE.
§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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