Assembly Bill A5912

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Requires exit surveys for employees resigning from state civil service

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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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2025-A5912 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S6990
Current Committee:
Assembly Governmental Employees
Law Section:
Civil Service Law
Laws Affected:
Add §159-e, Civ Serv L

2025-A5912 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires each agency to conduct exit surveys for employees resigning from state civil service; directs the state civil service commission to create an annual report on such surveys; exempts individual responses to exit surveys from the freedom of information law.

2025-A5912 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5912
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 24, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. BORES -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Governmental Employees
 
 AN ACT to amend the civil service law, in  relation  to  requiring  exit
   surveys for resigning employees
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. This act shall be known and may be cited  as  the  "improve
 civil service working conditions act".
   § 2. The civil service law is amended by adding a new section 159-e to
 read as follows:
   § 159-E. EXIT SURVEYS AND INTERVIEWS. 1. FOR PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION,
 THE FOLLOWING TERMS SHALL HAVE THE FOLLOWING MEANINGS:
   A.  "RESIGNING  EMPLOYEE" MEANS AN EMPLOYEE WHO HAS PROVIDED NOTICE OF
 RESIGNATION FROM EMPLOYMENT IN THE STATE  CIVIL  SERVICE  BUT  DOES  NOT
 INCLUDE A RETIRING EMPLOYEE.
   B.  "RETIRING  EMPLOYEE"  MEANS AN EMPLOYEE WHO HAS PROVIDED NOTICE OF
 RETIREMENT FROM EMPLOYMENT IN THE STATE SERVICE.
   C. "STATE AGENCY" SHALL HAVE THE SAME MEANING AS DEFINED IN  PARAGRAPH
 A OF SUBDIVISION ONE OF SECTION TWO HUNDRED ONE OF THE EXECUTIVE LAW.
   2. NO LATER THAN JANUARY FIRST, TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-SEVEN, EACH AGENCY
 SHALL  PROVIDE  TO THE DEPARTMENT COPIES OF ANY EXIT SURVEYS OR POLICIES
 THAT SUCH STATE AGENCY ADMINISTERS IN RELATION TO RESIGNING OR  RETIRING
 EMPLOYEES.
   3.  UPON  CONSIDERATION  OF ANY EXIT SURVEYS OR POLICIES RECEIVED FROM
 AGENCIES PURSUANT TO SUBDIVISION TWO  OF  THIS  SECTION,  THE  PRESIDENT
 SHALL  CREATE  A  COMPREHENSIVE  EXIT  SURVEY AND INTERVIEW PROTOCOL FOR
 RESIGNING EMPLOYEES AND RETIRING EMPLOYEES. SUCH  SURVEY  AND  INTERVIEW
 PROTOCOL  SHALL INCLUDE, BUT NOT BE LIMITED TO: A. QUESTIONS DESIGNED TO
 ELICIT DETAILS REGARDING THE QUALITY OF THE EMPLOYEE'S EXPERIENCE DURING
 THEIR EMPLOYMENT IN STATE SERVICE AND THE EMPLOYEE'S REASONS FOR RESIGN-
 ING OR RETIRING FROM EMPLOYMENT IN THE STATE SERVICE; B. BASIC PROTOCOLS
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD02150-02-5
              

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