NY State Senate Bill 2025-S7655

Senate Bill S7655

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to comparable salary and other benefits for state employees designated managerial or confidential

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Civil Service And Pensions Committee

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- In Committee Senate
- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
- Passed Assembly
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Delivered to Governor
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Apr 25, 2025	referred to civil service and pensions

2025-S7655 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:: A8521
Current Committee:: Senate Civil Service And Pensions
Law Section:: Civil Service Law
Laws Affected:: Add §137, Civ Serv L

2025-S7655 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides for comparable salary and other benefits for state employees designated managerial or confidential which shall not be withheld unless an employee has received a formal written performance evaluation rating of unsatisfactory or its equivalent.

2025-S7655 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                 
BILL NUMBER: S7655

SPONSOR: JACKSON
 
TITLE OF BILL:

An act to amend the civil service law, in relation to comparable salary
and other benefits for state employees designated managerial or confi-
dential

 
PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL:

The purpose of this bill is to ensure that managerial or confidential
state employees receive their Performance Advancement Adjustments on a
timely basis on par with their union-represented colleagues.

 
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:

Section 1 adds a new Section 137 to the Civil Service Law that requires
that managerial or confidential state employees shall receive perform-
ance advancement adjustments on April first of each fiscal year.

Section 2 is the effective date.

 
JUSTIFICATION:

This bill, which carries no cost, will not only ensure the timely
payment of salary adjustments for 11,000 management and confidential
(M/C) employees, but confirm that M/C employees of the State of New York
will be treated no differently than their union-represented coworkers.

On at least two occasions, M/C employees did not receive their Perform-
ance Advancement Adjustments on a timely basis. These salary adjustments
are routinely made on an annual basis to State employees as they advance
within their salary grade from their hiring rate.

Such adjustments reflect an increase in pay commensurate with each
employee's greater experience on the job. In fact, this process is
explicitly outlined in the M/C Employee Handbook published by the State
of New York. Union-represented employees of the State of New York
consistently receive such salary increases in accordance with time
frames set in their respective collective bargaining agreements; M/C
employees lack such protection as they cannot, by law, negotiate terms
and conditions of employment.

This bill addresses the issue by ensuring that M/C employees receive
their Performance Advancement Adjustments on a timely basis on par with
their union-represented colleagues.

 
PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

New bill.

 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS FOR STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS:

N/A

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect on the first of April next succeeding 15 the
date on which it shall have become a law.

2025-S7655 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7655
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              April 25, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. JACKSON -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Civil Service and Pensions
 
 AN ACT to amend the civil service law, in relation to comparable  salary
   and other benefits for state employees designated managerial or confi-
   dential

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. The civil service law is amended by adding  a  new  section
 137 to read as follows:
   § 137. COMPARABLE SALARY AND OTHER BENEFITS. NOTWITHSTANDING ANY OTHER
 PROVISION  OF LAW TO THE CONTRARY, STATE EMPLOYEES DESIGNATED MANAGERIAL
 OR CONFIDENTIAL UNDER ARTICLE FOURTEEN OF  THIS  CHAPTER  SHALL  RECEIVE
 PERFORMANCE ADVANCEMENT ADJUSTMENTS EQUIVALENT TO ONE SIXTH OF THE SALA-
 RY  RANGE FOR SUCH EMPLOYEE'S SALARY GRADE ON APRIL FIRST OF EACH FISCAL
 YEAR FOLLOWING COMPLETION OF EACH YEAR OF SERVICE IN GRADE. AS A  RESULT
 OF  SUCH  ADJUSTMENT,  NO  EMPLOYEE  SALARY SHALL EXCEED THE JOB RATE OF
 THEIR SALARY GRADE. PERFORMANCE ADVANCEMENT ADJUSTMENTS DUE ANY  MANAGE-
 RIAL  OR  CONFIDENTIAL EMPLOYEE SHALL NOT BE WITHHELD UNLESS AN EMPLOYEE
 HAS RECEIVED A FORMAL WRITTEN PERFORMANCE EVALUATION RATING OF  UNSATIS-
 FACTORY OR ITS EQUIVALENT.
   §  2. This act shall take effect on the first of April next succeeding
 the date on which it shall have become a law.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD11473-01-5

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