Senate Bill S5459

2025-2026 Legislative Session

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

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Civil Service And Pensions Committee

  • 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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2025-S5459 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Civil Service And Pensions
Law Section:
Civil Service Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§55-b & 55-c, Civ Serv L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2021-2022: S7386
2023-2024: S2497

2025-S5459 (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.

2025-S5459 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S5459 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5459
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 21, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sens.  COMRIE,  CLEARE,  WEBB  -- 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 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
 separately amended by section 1 of part T of chapter 55 and chapter  521
 of the laws of 2023, is amended to read as follows:
   1.  The  commission may determine up to [seventeen hundred] FIVE THOU-
 SAND 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 desig-
 nated 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 disa-
 bility. The number of persons appointed pursuant to this  section  shall
 not exceed [seventeen hundred] FIVE THOUSAND.
   §  2. Subdivision 1 of section 55-c of the civil service law, as sepa-
 rately amended by chapters 521 and 618 of the laws of 2023,  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. 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 classi-
 fied  in the noncompetitive class, and may be filled only by veterans of
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD09678-01-5

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