Bill Text: NY A10154 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Enacts the "unique abilities employment act" relating to the employment of persons with developmental disabilities by school districts.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-05-10 - referred to governmental employees [A10154 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A10154-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          10154

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      May 10, 2024
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        Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Blumencranz)
          -- read once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Employees

        AN  ACT to amend the civil service law, in relation to the employment of
          persons with developmental disabilities by school districts

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.  Short  title. This act shall be known and may be cited as
     2  the "unique abilities employment act".
     3    § 2. The civil service law is amended by adding a new section 55-d  to
     4  read as follows:
     5    §  55-d.  Employment  of  persons  with  developmental disabilities by
     6  school districts. 1.  The  commission  may  determine  up  to  seventeen
     7  hundred  positions  in  a  school  district  with  duties such as can be
     8  performed by persons with developmental disabilities,  including  intel-
     9  lectual  disabilities,  cerebral  palsy,  Down syndrome, autism spectrum
    10  disorders, Prader-Willi syndrome and other neurological impairments  who
    11  are  found  otherwise  qualified to perform satisfactorily the duties of
    12  any such position. Positions designated to be filled  pursuant  to  this
    13  section  may  be  filled  on  a  full-time or part-time basis. Upon such
    14  determination the said positions shall be classified in  the  noncompet-
    15  itive  class,  and  may  be  filled  only by persons who shall have been
    16  certified by the employee health service of the department or the office
    17  for people with developmental disabilities, as being  a  person  with  a
    18  developmental  disability.  The  number of persons appointed pursuant to
    19  this section shall not exceed seventeen hundred.
    20    2. Those employees hired pursuant to subdivision one of this  section,
    21  shall  be afforded the same opportunity to take promotional examinations
    22  as provided to employees in the competitive class.
    23    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD15351-01-4