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                                   6480
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              April 11, 2023
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 Introduced  by M. of A. BURDICK -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Governmental Employees
 
 AN ACT to amend the civil service law, in relation to allowing an  indi-
   vidual  with  disabilities  or a disabled veteran to hold full-time or
   part-time positions for purposes of eligibility  for  recruitment  for
   state employment

   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  positions  with
 duties  such  as  can  be performed by persons with a physical or mental
 disability who are found otherwise qualified to  perform  satisfactorily
 the  duties  of  any  such  position.  POSITIONS DESIGNATED TO BE FILLED
 PURSUANT TO THIS SECTION MAY BE  FILLED  ON  A  FULL-TIME  OR  PART-TIME
 BASIS. 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 pursuant to this section shall  not  exceed  twelve
 hundred.
   §  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 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.  POSITIONS DESIGNATED TO BE FILLED
 PURSUANT TO THIS SECTION MAY BE  FILLED  ON  A  FULL-TIME  OR  PART-TIME
 BASIS.  Upon  such determination, the said positions shall be classified

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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 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 subdivi-
 sion one of section eighty-five of this chapter, or (b) by those  veter-
 ans,  as  defined in paragraph (a) of subdivision one of section eighty-
 five of this chapter, who shall have  been  certified  by  the  employee
 health  service  of  the  department  as  being  disabled but capable of
 performing the duties of said positions.  Priority in certification  and
 referral of both such disabled veterans and certified disabled but capa-
 ble  veterans  shall  be given to those veterans who received a wound in
 combat, as documented by the awarding of the purple heart, as authorized
 by the United States department of defense, and that wound is the  cause
 of, or a substantially contributing factor to, the degree of impairment,
 who  otherwise  meet  the  requirements  of  this section. The number of
 veterans appointed pursuant  to  this  section  shall  not  exceed  five
 hundred.
   § 3. Section 59-d of the civil service law, as added by chapter 402 of
 the laws of 2022, is amended to read as follows:
   §  59-d.  Public  posting  of employment opportunities. The department
 shall make publicly available on its  website  all  employment  opportu-
 nities  in  the  civil service of the state and information on obtaining
 employment with the state, including, but not limited to,  vacancies  in
 the  competitive,  non-competitive  and  labor  jurisdictional  classes,
 announcements for upcoming  open-competitive  and  promotional  examina-
 tions,  test application instructions, and designations of which employ-
 ment opportunities are eligible to be filled by individuals  with  disa-
 bilities   and   veterans  with  disabilities,  INCLUDING  WHETHER  SUCH
 POSITIONS MAY BE FILLED ON A FULL-TIME OR PART-TIME BASIS,  pursuant  to
 section  fifty-five-b  and section fifty-five-c, as amended by A chapter
 [six hundred three] of the laws of [nineteen  hundred  ninety-five]  TWO
 THOUSAND  TWENTY-THREE,  of  this  title.  The  president  shall work in
 conjunction with the New York state department of labor and  the  gover-
 nor's office of employee relations in order to effectuate the provisions
 of this section.
   §  4. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed-
 ing the date upon which it shall have become a law.