Assembly Bill A8157

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Relates to employment of persons and veterans with disabilities by the state

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2021-A8157 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S7386
Current Committee:
Assembly Governmental Employees
Law Section:
Civil Service Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§55-b & 55-c, Civ Serv L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
A441, S2497

2021-A8157 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to employment of persons and veterans with disabilities by the state; provides up to five thousand positions may be filled by persons with a physical or mental disability and up to two thousand positions may be filled by disabled veterans and veterans with disabilities.

2021-A8157 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8157
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               July 7, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. EPSTEIN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Governmental Employees
 
 AN ACT to amend the civil service law,  in  relation  to  employment  of
   persons and veterans with disabilities by the state
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 55-b of the civil service law,  as
 amended  by  chapter  603  of  the  laws  of 1995, is amended to read as
 follows:
   1. The commission may determine up to [twelve hundred]  FIVE  THOUSAND
 positions  with  duties such as can be performed by persons with a phys-
 ical or mental disability who are found otherwise qualified  to  perform
 satisfactorily  the duties of any such position. Upon such determination
 the said positions shall be classified in the noncompetitive class,  and
 may  be  filled  only  by  persons  who shall have been certified by the
 employee health service of the department as being a person with  either
 a physical or mental disability.  The number of persons appointed pursu-
 ant to this section shall not exceed [twelve hundred] FIVE THOUSAND.
   §  2.  Subdivision  1  of  section  55-c  of the civil service law, as
 amended by chapter 340 of the laws  of  2008,  is  amended  to  read  as
 follows:
   1.  The  commission  may  determine  up to [five hundred] TWO THOUSAND
 positions with duties such as can be performed by disabled veterans  and
 veterans  with disabilities who are found otherwise qualified to perform
 satisfactorily the duties of any such position. Upon such determination,
 the said positions shall be classified in the noncompetitive class,  and
 may  be filled only by veterans of the armed forces of the United States
 who served therein during time of war, as defined in  paragraph  (c)  of
 subdivision  one  of  section  eighty-five  of this chapter, and (a) who
 establish by appropriate documentary evidence  that  they  are  disabled
 veterans,  as  defined  in  paragraph  (b) of subdivision one of section
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

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