Bill Text: NY S08216 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Requires that applicants not be prohibited from taking competitive civil service exams if they will meet the minimum age requirement or attain the minimum education requirement within twelve months.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-3)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-03-13 - SUBSTITUTED BY A8876 [S08216 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S08216-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         8216--A

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 12, 2024
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen. JACKSON -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Civil Service and Pensions
          -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered  reprinted  as  amended
          and recommitted to said committee

        AN ACT to amend the civil service law, in relation to establishing time-
          line standards for candidates to take competitive examinations

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

     1    Section 1. Section 54 of the civil service law, as amended by  chapter
     2  278 of the laws of 1994, is amended to read as follows:
     3    § 54. Age   and   educational  requirements.  1.  Notwithstanding  any
     4  provision of law to the contrary, except as herein provided, neither the
     5  state civil service department nor the state civil  service  commission,
     6  nor  any  municipal  civil  service  commission shall prohibit, prevent,
     7  disqualify, or discriminate against, any person who  is  physically  and
     8  mentally qualified, from participating in a civil service examination or
     9  from  qualifying  for  a  position  in  the classified civil service, or
    10  penalize any such person in a final rating by reason of his or her  age;
    11  and  any  such rule, requirement, resolution, regulation or penalization
    12  shall be void. Nothing herein  contained,  however,  shall  prevent  the
    13  adoption  of  reasonable  minimum  or  maximum age requirements for open
    14  competitive examinations for positions where it  is  determined  by  the
    15  department  and  approved  by  the commission that such age requirements
    16  would be reasonable minimum qualification for such position. Minimum age
    17  requirements shall in no case prohibit an applicant who is within  [six]
    18  twelve months of the minimum age requirement from taking any competitive
    19  examination. Nothing herein contained shall be construed to prohibit the
    20  disqualification, on account of age, of any applicant for a position who
    21  has reached the mandatory retirement age applicable by law to such posi-
    22  tion.
    23    2.  Minimum education requirements shall in no case prohibit an appli-
    24  cant who is within twelve months  of  obtaining  the  minimum  education
    25  requirements from taking any competitive examination.
    26    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14045-02-4