Senate Bill S8551

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Relates to updating civil service examinations

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Current Bill Status Via A9349 - Passed Senate

  • 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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2023-S8551 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A9349
Law Section:
Civil Service Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §50, Civ Serv L

2023-S8551 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides that the state civil service department shall review and update the questions contained within the examination, as deemed appropriate by the department, no less than every five years.

2023-S8551 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2023-S8551 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8551
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 13, 2024
                                ___________
 
 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  updating  civil
   service examinations
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Subdivision 6 of section 50 of the civil  service  law,  as
 added by chapter 790 of the laws of 1958, is amended to read as follows:
   6.  Scope  of  examinations.  Examinations shall be practical in their
 character and shall relate to those matters which will fairly  test  the
 relative  capacity  and fitness of the persons examined to discharge the
 duties of that service into which they seek to be appointed.  The  state
 civil  service  department  or  appropriate municipal commission, as the
 case may be, may establish an eligible list  on  the  basis  of  ratings
 received  by  the candidates in the competitive portions of the examina-
 tion and thereafter conduct  medical,  physical  and  other  appropriate
 non-competitive  qualifying  tests  from  time  to  time as the need for
 certifications from the eligible list  may  require.  BEGINNING  IN  TWO
 THOUSAND  TWENTY-FIVE,  THE  STATE CIVIL SERVICE DEPARTMENT SHALL REVIEW
 AND UPDATE THE QUESTIONS CONTAINED WITHIN  THE  EXAMINATION,  AS  DEEMED
 APPROPRIATE  BY  THE DEPARTMENT, NO LESS THAN EVERY FIVE YEARS.  NOTHING
 IN THIS SECTION SHALL PROHIBIT THE STATE CIVIL SERVICE  DEPARTMENT  FROM
 REVIEWING OR UPDATING THE EXAMINATIONS PRIOR TO THE SCHEDULED UPDATE, AS
 THE DEPARTMENT DEEMS APPROPRIATE.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD14540-01-4

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