Directs the department of civil service to conduct a study to determine the number of people with a disability employed by agencies; requires the department to make a report including any recommendations to increase the number of people with disabilities employed by such agencies.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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5439
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 16, 2021
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Introduced by M. of A. EPSTEIN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Governmental Employees
AN ACT to direct the department of civil service to conduct a study to
determine the number of people with a disability employed by agencies;
and providing for the repeal of such provisions upon the expiration
thereof
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. 1. The following terms when used in this act shall have the
2 following meanings:
3 (a) "disability" shall have the same meaning as section 292 of the
4 executive law; and
5 (b) "agency" shall mean any department, board, bureau, commission,
6 division, office, council, committee, public benefit corporation or
7 public authority at least one of whose members is appointed by the
8 governor.
9 2. (a) The department of civil service shall conduct a study to deter-
10 mine the number of people with a disability employed by an agency and
11 shall make a report including any recommendations to increase the number
12 of people with disabilities employed by such agencies.
13 (b) Such report shall also include but not be limited to:
14 (i) the total number of employees in the state with a disability;
15 (ii) an agency by agency breakdown containing the percentage of
16 employees with a disability;
17 (iii) a breakdown of the number of employees with a disability who are
18 part of the civil service;
19 (iv) a breakdown of the number of employees with a disability who are
20 management confidential; and
21 (v) a breakdown of the number of employees with a disability who serve
22 in a supervisory role.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 3. The department of civil service may request, and is authorized to
2 receive, any information from any agency that is relevant and material
3 to the completion of such study. Such information received by the
4 department of civil service shall be subject to the same requirements
5 for confidentiality and limitations on use, if any, as are applicable to
6 such agency's use of such information and may only be utilized by the
7 department and the commissioner of civil service for purposes authorized
8 by this section.
9 4. The department of civil service shall issue such report to the
10 governor, the temporary president of the senate, the speaker of the
11 assembly, the minority leader of the senate and the minority leader of
12 the assembly no later than one year from the effective date of this act.
13 The contents of such report shall not contain the personally identifi-
14 able information of any individual.
15 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall expire and be
16 deemed repealed two years after such date.
