Bill Text: NY S08557 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides for crediting of time spent as a provisional appointee for promotional examinations and eligibility for appointment from the resulting eligible lists.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-1)

Status: (Passed) 2024-09-04 - SIGNED CHAP.307 [S08557 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S08557-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8557

                    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  crediting  of
          provisional time for promotional examinations

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

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 10 of section 52 of the civil service  law,  as
     2  added by chapter 790 of the laws of 1958, is amended to read as follows:
     3    10.  Credit for provisional service. a. No credit in a promotion exam-
     4  ination shall be granted to any person for any time served as  a  provi-
     5  sional  appointee in the position to which promotion is sought or in any
     6  similar position,  provided,  however,  such  provisional  appointee  by
     7  reason  of  such  provisional  appointment shall receive credit in [his]
     8  such person's permanent position from which promotion is sought for such
     9  time served in such provisional appointment.
    10    b. A person appointed provisionally in accordance with section  sixty-
    11  five  of  this  article who receives a permanent appointment to the same
    12  title immediately following the provisional appointment shall  have  all
    13  time spent as a provisional appointee in such title credited towards the
    14  qualifications  required  to  take  a promotional examination as well as
    15  eligibility for appointment from the resulting eligible list. Such  time
    16  credited  pursuant  to  this  subdivision  shall  be  used  only for the
    17  purposes of any term that is required for a promotional examination  and
    18  eligibility  for  appointment from the resulting eligible list and shall
    19  not be used for any other purpose.
    20    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14393-01-4