Directs the president of the state civil service commission to conduct a study on job vacancies across state agencies and determine which, if any, state agencies are understaffed.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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8209
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
May 21, 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 in relation to directing the president of the state civil service
commission to conduct a study on job vacancies across state agencies
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The president of the state civil service commission shall
2 conduct a comprehensive study on the number of job vacancies within
3 state agencies to determine which agencies are currently understaffed.
4 § 2. 1. Such study shall examine how many full-time and part-time
5 positions are budgeted for in each agency, how many of those budgeted
6 for positions remain vacant, and how long those positions have been
7 vacant.
8 2. Such study shall include recommendations based on the data examined
9 as to whether the state can take additional action to market or inform
10 the public of state job opportunities and if so, what specific actions
11 should be taken.
12 § 3. For the purposes of this section, the president of the state
13 civil service commission may conduct such study in conjunction with any
14 other department, division, board, bureau, commission, agency, or public
15 authority of the state deemed necessary. To the maximum extent feasible,
16 the president of the state civil service commission shall be authorized
17 to request, receive, and utilize such resources and data of any other
18 department, division, board, bureau, commission, agency, or public
19 authority of the state as such president of the state civil service
20 commission may reasonably request to properly carry such president of
21 the state civil service commission's powers and duties pursuant to this
22 act.
23 § 4. The president of the state civil service commission shall report
24 on the results of the study described in this act within one year from
25 the effective date of this act. Such report shall be made publicly
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 available online on the New York state department of civil service's
2 website and shall be delivered to the governor, the temporary president
3 of the senate, and the speaker of the assembly.
4 § 5. This act shall take effect immediately.
