Bill Text: NY A01432 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Allows municipal commissions to use alternate lists for filling vacancies with resident and non-resident minority group members and women in order to achieve diversity in police departments.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 14-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to governmental employees [A01432 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-A01432-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ S. 1648 A. 1432 2019-2020 Regular Sessions SENATE - ASSEMBLY January 15, 2019 ___________ IN SENATE -- Introduced by Sen. BAILEY -- read twice and ordered print- ed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Civil Service and Pensions IN ASSEMBLY -- Introduced by M. of A. PRETLOW, WALKER, PICHARDO, STECK, CRESPO, ARROYO, COOK, PEOPLES-STOKES, WRIGHT -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. BLAKE, SIMON -- read once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Employees AN ACT to amend the civil service law, in relation to appointments from eligible lists The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section 23 of the civil service law, as 2 amended by chapter 403 of the laws of 2011, is amended and a new subdi- 3 vision 4-c is added to read as follows: 4 4. Use of state and county eligible lists, as the source of new hires, 5 by municipal commissions. A municipal commission, in the absence of an 6 eligible list of its own, may request the state civil service depart- 7 ment, county civil service commission or county personnel officer to 8 furnish it with the names of persons on an appropriate eligible list 9 established by the department, commission or personnel officer, which, 10 if so requested by the municipal commission, shall be limited to resi- 11 dents of the city, or town or civil division in which appointments are 12 to be made, or to residents of the county or judicial district in which 13 such city, town or civil division is located, or to any reasonable 14 combination of political subdivisions both in and outside of New York 15 state contiguous to the city or civil division in which appointment is 16 to be made or contiguous to the political subdivision in which such city 17 or civil division is located, except for the position of director of 18 facilities I, II, & III of a school district located within the state 19 which shall use the list developed pursuant to subdivision five of EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD05412-01-9S. 1648 2 A. 1432 1 section seventeen of this [chapter] title. Such municipal commission may 2 certify such names for appointment to a position under its jurisdiction 3 in the same manner as certifications are made from the eligible lists of 4 such commission. If the state civil service department, county civil 5 service commission or county personnel officer, upon the request of such 6 commission, has certified an appropriate eligible list to fill a partic- 7 ular position, such list shall continue to be used until superseded by 8 an eligible list established by such municipal commission for such posi- 9 tion, or until such list expires or is exhausted or is otherwise termi- 10 nated. 11 4-c. Alternate lists for police departments. Police departments where 12 a list pursuant to subdivision four of this section does not adequately 13 represent minority populations and the existing police department's 14 ethnic, racial or women composition deviates from the community upon 15 which they serve by twenty-five percent or more, a municipal commission 16 may use alternate lists, including but not limited to the county list, 17 for the filling of vacancies by both resident and non-resident minority 18 group members, as defined by section three hundred ten of the executive 19 law, and women in order to achieve diversity in the workforce. Alternate 20 lists created by police departments in surrounding municipalities shall 21 be provided and police departments shall hire from such alternate lists 22 until such police department's ethnic, racial or women composition no 23 longer deviates from the community upon which they serve by twenty-five 24 percent or more, upon which time the municipal commission shall be 25 required to use its own eligible list. Police departments shall hire 26 candidates from alternate lists based on merit and fitness, further the 27 rule of three shall apply. 28 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
