Bill Text: NY S08551 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides that the state civil service department shall review and update the questions contained within the examination, as deemed appropriate by the department, no less than every five years.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced) 2024-05-29 - SUBSTITUTED BY A9349 [S08551 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S08551-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8551

                    IN SENATE

                                    February 13, 2024
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        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  updating  civil
          service examinations

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

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 6 of section 50 of the civil  service  law,  as
     2  added by chapter 790 of the laws of 1958, is amended to read as follows:
     3    6.  Scope  of  examinations.  Examinations shall be practical in their
     4  character and shall relate to those matters which will fairly  test  the
     5  relative  capacity  and fitness of the persons examined to discharge the
     6  duties of that service into which they seek to be appointed.  The  state
     7  civil  service  department  or  appropriate municipal commission, as the
     8  case may be, may establish an eligible list  on  the  basis  of  ratings
     9  received  by  the candidates in the competitive portions of the examina-
    10  tion and thereafter conduct  medical,  physical  and  other  appropriate
    11  non-competitive  qualifying  tests  from  time  to  time as the need for
    12  certifications from the eligible list  may  require.  Beginning  in  two
    13  thousand  twenty-five,  the  state civil service department shall review
    14  and update the questions contained within  the  examination,  as  deemed
    15  appropriate  by  the department, no less than every five years.  Nothing
    16  in this section shall prohibit the state civil service  department  from
    17  reviewing or updating the examinations prior to the scheduled update, as
    18  the department deems appropriate.
    19    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.




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