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.
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