STATE OF NEW YORK
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2267
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 22, 2015
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Introduced by Sen. GOLDEN -- 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 scheduling an
examination for any position or positions in the classified services
that provides child protection services
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section 7 of the civil service law, as
2 added by chapter 790 of the laws of 1958, is amended to read as follows:
3 4. Subject to the provisions of this chapter and the rules established
4 thereunder, he shall make regulations for and have control of examina-
5 tions for the service of the state, and the civil divisions thereof,
6 except civil divisions for which a municipal commission performs such
7 function, and shall supervise and preserve the records thereof.
8 Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, upon the written
9 request of a municipal civil service commission or personnel officer as
10 applicable, where such local commission or personnel officer certifies
11 the need for the immediate scheduling of an examination for any position
12 or positions in the classified services that provides child protection
13 services pursuant to title six of article six of the social services
14 law, the president shall immediately announce, schedule, score, and
15 certify the results of such examination. Such examination shall have
16 priority over all other examinations that have been requested or are
17 otherwise being scheduled. In no event shall the process of offering
18 such examination take longer than sixty days. This provision shall be
19 applicable notwithstanding the existence of an existing civil service
20 list and notwithstanding the absence of currently vacant positions in
21 such classified title or titles.
22 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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