Assembly Bill A8023

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Requires the department of civil service to allow municipalities to post municipal employment positions on the department of civil service's state jobs website

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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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2025-A8023 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S7237
Current Committee:
Assembly Governmental Employees
Law Section:
Civil Service Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §59-d, Civ Serv L

2025-A8023 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires the department of civil service to allow municipalities to post municipal employment positions on the department of civil service's state jobs website; requires such municipal employment opportunities to be posted in a format searchable by municipality and employment position type.

2025-A8023 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8023
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              April 22, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. KASSAY -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Governmental Employees
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the  civil service law, in relation to requiring the
   department of civil service to allow municipalities to post  municipal
   employment  positions  on the department of civil service's state jobs
   website

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1. Section 59-d of the civil service law, as amended by chap-
 ter 521 of the laws of 2023, is amended to read as follows:
   § 59-d. Public posting of employment opportunities. 1. The  department
 shall  make  publicly  available  on its website all employment opportu-
 nities in the civil service of the state and  information  on  obtaining
 employment  with  the state, including, but not limited to, vacancies in
 the  competitive,  non-competitive  and  labor  jurisdictional  classes,
 announcements  for  upcoming  open-competitive  and promotional examina-
 tions, test application instructions, and designations of which  employ-
 ment  opportunities  are eligible to be filled by individuals with disa-
 bilities  and  veterans  with  disabilities,  including   whether   such
 positions  may  be filled on a full-time or part-time basis, pursuant to
 section fifty-five-b and section fifty-five-c, as amended by  a  chapter
 of the laws of two thousand twenty-three, of this title.
   2.  THE  DEPARTMENT SHALL PROVIDE MUNICIPALITIES IN THE STATE WITH THE
 ABILITY TO POST MUNICIPAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES ON THE  SAME  WEBSITE
 OF  THE  DEPARTMENT UNDER WHICH STATE CIVIL SERVICE POSITIONS ARE POSTED
 PURSUANT TO SUBDIVISION ONE OF THIS SECTION, INCLUDING ALL  OTHER  RELE-
 VANT  INFORMATION  AS  DESCRIBED  UNDER SUBDIVISION ONE OF THIS SECTION.
 SUCH MUNICIPAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES SHALL  BE  POSTED  IN  A  FORMAT
 WHERE  JOB  SEEKERS  MAY SEARCH BY MUNICIPALITY AND MUNICIPAL EMPLOYMENT
 POSITION TYPE.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD10444-01-5
 A. 8023                             2

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