Bill Text: MO HB2423 | 2010 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires the Division of Personnel to develop rules and regulations ensuring the state adopts a uniform hiring preference for veterans, disabled veterans, and their surviving spouses
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-05-14 - Referred: Veterans (H) [HB2423 Detail]
Download: Missouri-2010-HB2423-Introduced.html
SECOND REGULAR SESSION
95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVES KANDER (Sponsor), FISHER (125), HOLSMAN, WEBBER, DUSENBERG, SCHIEFFER AND ATKINS (Co-sponsors).
5454L.01I D. ADAM CRUMBLISS, Chief Clerk
AN ACT
To repeal section 36.220, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof two new sections relating to veteran's preference in state hiring.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:
Section A. Section 36.220, RSMo, is repealed and two new sections enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as sections 36.032 and 36.220, to read as follows:
36.032. 1. Any provision of law to the contrary notwithstanding, except for the elective offices, institutions of higher learning, and those provisions for which the constitution specifically provides the method of selection, every department, agency and position of the executive branch of state government shall comply with regulations adopted by the division of personnel under subsection 2 of this section and consistent with sections 536.010 to 536.215 to ensure the state adopts a uniform hiring preference for the appointment and employment of veterans, disabled veterans and surviving spouses, as defined in subdivisions (7), (17) and (18) of section 36.020.
2. The division of personnel shall promulgate administrative rules and regulations consistent with this section and that ensure:
(1) For merit system agencies, any veteran or surviving spouse whose name appears on a register of eligibles and who made a passing grade shall have five points added to his or her final grade, and his or her rank on the register shall be determined on the basis of this augmented grade;
(2) For merit system agencies, a disabled veteran whose name appears on a register of eligibles and who made a passing grade shall have ten points added to his or her final grade, and his or her rank on the register shall be determined on the basis of the augmented grade;
(3) For nonmerit system agencies; veterans status, disabled veterans status and surviving spouse status is assessed positively when considering an otherwise qualified candidate for an executive branch position and that additional positive consideration will be given to qualified disabled veterans candidates.
3. The following offices and positions are not subject to this section:
(1) Other provisions of the law notwithstanding, members of boards and commissions;
(2) Departmental directors;
(3) Principal assistants designated by the departmental directors;
(4) Division directors;
(5) Principal assistants designated by the division directors;
(6) Principal assistants for boards and commissions appointed by the governor or director of the department;
(7) Chaplains;
(8) Persons employed in an internship capacity in a state department or institution as a part of their formal training, at a college, university, business, trade or other technical school;
(9) Administrative heads of each state medical, penal and correctional institution;
(10) Deputies or other policy-making assistants;
(11) Special assistants as designated by an appointing authority.
4. The spouse of a disabled veteran shall be given the same hiring preference under the rules promulgated by the division of personnel as a veteran or surviving spouse, but only if the veteran is not employed in the state service and the disability renders him or her unqualified for entrance into the state service.
5. Any person who has been honorably discharged from the armed forces of the United States shall receive the appropriate credit for any training or experience gained therein in any examination if the training or experience is related to the duties of the class of positions for which the examination is given.
36.220. [1. In any competitive examination given for the purpose of establishing a register of eligibles, veterans, disabled veterans, surviving spouses and spouses of disabled veterans shall be given preference in appointment and examination in the following manner:
(1) A veteran, or the surviving spouse of any veteran whose name appears on a register of eligibles who made a passing grade, shall have five points added to his or her final grade, and his or her rank on the register shall be determined on the basis of this augmented grade.
(2) The spouse of a disabled veteran, whose name appears on a register of eligibles and who made a passing grade, shall have five points added to his or her final grade, and his or her rank on the register shall be determined on the basis of this augmented grade. This preference shall be given only if the veteran is not employed in the state service and the disability renders him or her unqualified for entrance into the state service.
(3) A disabled veteran, whose name appears on a register of eligibles and who made a passing grade, shall have ten points added to his or her final grade, and his or her rank on the register shall be determined on the basis of this augmented grade.
2.] Any person who has been honorably discharged from the armed forces of the United States shall receive appropriate credit for any training or experience gained therein in any examination if the training or experience is related to the duties of the class of positions for which the examination is given.
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