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.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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441
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 9, 2023
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Introduced by M. of A. EPSTEIN, BURDICK, GALLAGHER, SEAWRIGHT, SANTABAR-
BARA, LUNSFORD, SAYEGH, HEVESI, SILLITTI, CRUZ, LEMONDES, DeSTEFANO,
GUNTHER, MEEKS, GIBBS, COOK -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. BRABENEC
-- read once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Employees
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:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 55-b of the civil service law, as
2 amended by chapter 603 of the laws of 1995, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 1. The commission may determine up to [twelve hundred] five thousand
5 positions with duties such as can be performed by persons with a phys-
6 ical or mental disability who are found otherwise qualified to perform
7 satisfactorily the duties of any such position. Upon such determination
8 the said positions shall be classified in the noncompetitive class, and
9 may be filled only by persons who shall have been certified by the
10 employee health service of the department as being a person with either
11 a physical or mental disability. The number of persons appointed pursu-
12 ant to this section shall not exceed [twelve hundred] five thousand.
13 § 2. Subdivision 1 of section 55-c of the civil service law, as
14 amended by chapter 340 of the laws of 2008, is amended to read as
15 follows:
16 1. The commission may determine up to [five hundred] two thousand
17 positions with duties such as can be performed by disabled veterans and
18 veterans with disabilities who are found otherwise qualified to perform
19 satisfactorily the duties of any such position. Upon such determination,
20 the said positions shall be classified in the noncompetitive class, and
21 may be filled only by veterans of the armed forces of the United States
22 who served therein during time of war, as defined in paragraph (c) of
23 subdivision one of section eighty-five of this chapter, and (a) who
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 establish by appropriate documentary evidence that they are disabled
2 veterans, as defined in paragraph (b) of subdivision one of section
3 eighty-five of this chapter, or (b) by those veterans, as defined in
4 paragraph (a) of subdivision one of section eighty-five of this chapter,
5 who shall have been certified by the employee health service of the
6 department as being disabled but capable of performing the duties of
7 said positions. Priority in certification and referral of both such
8 disabled veterans and certified disabled but capable veterans shall be
9 given to those veterans who received a wound in combat, as documented by
10 the awarding of the purple heart, as authorized by the United States
11 department of defense, and that wound is the cause of, or a substantial-
12 ly contributing factor to, the degree of impairment, who otherwise meet
13 the requirements of this section. The number of veterans appointed
14 pursuant to this section shall not exceed [five hundred] two thousand.
15 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
