STATE OF NEW YORK
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9243
IN ASSEMBLY
February 22, 2024
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Introduced by M. of A. PHEFFER AMATO -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Governmental Employees
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:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 6 of section 50 of the civil service law, as
2 added by chapter 790 of the laws of 1958, is amended to read as follows:
3 6. Scope of examinations. Examinations shall be practical in their
4 character and shall relate to those matters which will fairly test the
5 relative capacity and fitness of the persons examined to discharge the
6 duties of that service into which they seek to be appointed. The state
7 civil service department or appropriate municipal commission, as the
8 case may be, may establish an eligible list on the basis of ratings
9 received by the candidates in the competitive portions of the examina-
10 tion and thereafter conduct medical, physical and other appropriate
11 non-competitive qualifying tests from time to time as the need for
12 certifications from the eligible list may require. Beginning in the year
13 two thousand twenty-five, the department shall review and update the
14 questions contained within the examination, as deemed appropriate by the
15 department, no less than every five years. Nothing in this section shall
16 prohibit the department from reviewing or updating the examinations
17 prior to the scheduled update, as the department deems appropriate.
18 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD14545-01-4
