NY State Senate Bill 2019-S4541

Senate Bill S4541

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Directs the president of the state civil service commission to publish reports annually relating to diversity within state government

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Civil Service And Pensions Committee

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Delivered to Governor
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2019-S4541 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:: A4616
Current Committee:: Senate Civil Service And Pensions
Law Section:: Civil Service
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:: 2009-2010: S2163, A1473
2011-2012: S1484, A488
2013-2014: S1841, A2828
2015-2016: S1540, A3479
2017-2018: S3402, A3754
2021-2022: S4746, A2439

2019-S4541 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Directs the president of the state civil service commission to publish reports annually relating to diversity within state government.

2019-S4541 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                
 
BILL NUMBER: S4541

SPONSOR: PARKER
 
TITLE OF BILL:  An act in relation to directing the president of the
state civil service commission to publish reports relating to diversity
within the state government

 
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:

Section One. The president of the state civil service commission within
the department of civil service is hereby directed to study and publish
annual reports recording data relating to diversity within the state and
civil divisions thereof as well as appointments to all state agencies,
authorities, boards, bureaus, commissions, departments and divisions.
The president of the state civil service commission shall annually
publish such reports and findings. Such reports shall be sent to the
chair of the senate standing committee on investigations and government
operations and to the chair of the assembly standing committee on
governmental employees no later than the first of February in each year.

 
JUSTIFICATION:

In previous years the State Civil Service commission published data
relating to diversity within the State Civil service system. For reasons
left unexplained, the Commission has stopped publishing such reports,
thereby leaving the State Legislature uninformed regarding the statis-
tical makeup of the Civil service sector.

This legislation also requires publication of this data in addition to
data previously unrecorded. This bill requires for the acquisition and
publication of data from all sectors of the State Government, including
appointments. It simply seeks solid data which can be used to measure
minority and women hirings by the New York State Government.

A study by the Center for Women in Government, entitled 'Democracy unre-
alized', has shown that Policy Level appointees within the State of New
York are grossly devoid of both minorities and women. out of sixty-three
(63) policy level appointees, only eighteen (18) are women and of that
eighteen only three (3) are persons of African-American or Latino back-
ground. Of the remaining forty-five (45) male appointees, only four (4)
are men of African-American or Latino backgrounds. Conspicuously absent
from these appointments are persons of Asian or Native American back-
grounds. This leaves New York State, one of the most diverse states in
the Nation, with one of the lowest races of diversity for Policy-Level
appointees.

This legislation seeks not to remedy this gross lack of diversity, but
to obtain data that can be used to study and mediate this problem in the
future.

 
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

2017-18: S3402 REFERRED TO CIVIL SERVICE AND PENSIONS
2015-16:S.1540/A.3479 Referred to Civil Service and Pensions
2013-14:S.1841/A.2828 Referred to Civil Service and Pensions
2011-12:S.1484/A.488-Referred to Civil Service and Pensions
2009-10:S.2163/A.14 73- Referred to Civil Service and Pensions
2007-08:S.2475/A.705 -Referred to Civil Service and Pensions
2006: S.6969 - Referred to Civil Service and Pensions
 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:

To be determined.

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect immediately.

2019-S4541 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4541
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              March 14, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  PARKER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Civil Service and Pensions
 
 AN ACT in relation to directing the president of the state civil service
   commission to publish reports relating to diversity within  the  state
   government

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. The president of the state civil service commission  within
 the  department of civil service is hereby directed to study and publish
 annual reports recording data relating to diversity within the state and
 civil divisions thereof as well as appointments to all  state  agencies,
 authorities, boards, bureaus, commissions, departments and divisions.
   The  president  of  the  state civil service commission shall annually
 publish such reports and findings. Such reports shall  be  sent  to  the
 chair  of the senate standing committee on investigations and government
 operations and to the  chair  of  the  assembly  standing  committee  on
 governmental employees no later than the first of February in each year.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD08101-01-9

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