Requires the Civil Service Commission to immediately announce and schedule an examination for any position that provides child protection services upon the written request of a municipal civil service commission or personnel officer due to an inability to fill such position from existing lists.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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6813--A
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
March 21, 2017
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Introduced by M. of A. ROSENTHAL -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Governmental Employees -- committee discharged, bill
amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
tee
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 law
14 because no person on the certified eligible list is willing to accept an
15 appointment or promotion from such list to be employed in such munici-
16 pality, the president shall immediately announce, schedule, score, and
17 certify the results of such examination. The results of such compet-
18 itive examination shall not be merged with any existing eligible list
19 for the same title and shall be available only to the municipal civil
20 service commission or personnel officer that requested the scheduling of
21 the examination that resulted in such eligible list, provided, however,
22 that the duration of any such eligible list shall not exceed the time
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 limitations described in section fifty-six of this chapter, and provided
2 further that such eligible list shall neither survive nor be merged with
3 any eligible list created thereafter when such eligible list was created
4 as a result of a state-wide competitive examination for the same title.
5 Such examination shall be administered in at least two locations within
6 the affected municipality and shall have priority over all other exam-
7 inations that have been requested or are otherwise being scheduled. In
8 no event shall the process of offering such examination take longer than
9 sixty days.
10 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
