STATE OF NEW YORK
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4320
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 4, 2025
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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 extending the
pilot program to examine the effects of waiving the state civil
service examination fee; and to amend part EE of chapter 55 of the
laws of 2023 amending the civil service law relating to waiving state
civil service examination fees between July 1, 2023 and December 31,
2025, in relation to the effectiveness thereof
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 5 of section 50 of the civil
2 service law, as amended by section 1 of part EE of chapter 55 of the
3 laws of 2023, is amended to read as follows:
4 (b) Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (a) of this subdivi-
5 sion, the state civil service department, subject to the approval of the
6 director of the budget, a municipal commission, subject to the approval
7 of the governing board or body of the city or county, as the case may
8 be, or a regional commission or personnel officer, pursuant to govern-
9 mental agreement, may elect to waive application fees, or to abolish
10 fees for specific classes of positions or types of examinations or
11 candidates, or to establish a uniform schedule of reasonable fees
12 different from those prescribed in paragraph (a) of this subdivision,
13 specifying in such schedule the classes of positions or types of exam-
14 inations or candidates to which such fees shall apply; provided, howev-
15 er, that fees shall be waived for candidates who certify to the state
16 civil service department, a municipal commission or a regional commis-
17 sion that they are unemployed and primarily responsible for the support
18 of a household, or are receiving public assistance. Provided further,
19 the state civil service department shall waive the state application fee
20 for examinations for original appointment for all veterans. Provided
21 further, the state civil service department shall, and a municipal
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 commission may, subject to the approval of the governing board or body
2 of the city or county, as the case may be, or a regional commission or
3 personnel officer, pursuant to governmental agreement, waive application
4 fees for all examinations held between July first, two thousand twenty-
5 three and December thirty-first, two thousand [twenty-five]
6 twenty-seven. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, for purposes
7 of this section, the term "veteran" shall mean a person who has served
8 in the armed forces of the United States or the reserves thereof, or in
9 the army national guard, air national guard, New York guard, or the New
10 York naval militia, and who (1) has been honorably discharged or
11 released from such service under honorable conditions, or (2) has a
12 qualifying condition, as defined in section one of the veterans'
13 services law, and has received a discharge other than bad conduct or
14 dishonorable from such service, or (3) is a discharged LGBT veteran, as
15 defined in section one of the veterans' services law, and has received a
16 discharge other than bad conduct or dishonorable from such service. The
17 term "armed forces" shall mean the army, navy, air force, marine corps,
18 and coast guard.
19 § 2. Section 2 of part EE of chapter 55 of the laws of 2023 amending
20 the civil service law relating to waiving state civil service examina-
21 tion fees between July 1, 2023 and December 31, 2025, is amended to read
22 as follows:
23 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall expire and be
24 deemed repealed on December 31, [2025] 2027; provided that this act
25 shall be deemed to have been in full force and effect on and after April
26 1, 2023.
27 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately, provided, however, that
28 the amendments to paragraph (b) of subdivision 5 of section 50 of the
29 civil service law made by section one of this act shall not affect the
30 expiration of such subdivision and shall be deemed to expire therewith.
