STATE OF NEW YORK
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7019--A
2013-2014 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
April 29, 2013
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Introduced by M. of A. ABBATE -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Governmental Employees -- recommitted to the Committee on Govern-
mental Employees in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- commit-
tee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recom-
mitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the civil service law, in relation to the calculation of
seniority for purposes of layoffs or demotions
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 80 of the civil service law is amended by adding a
2 new subdivision 1-f to read as follows:
3 1-f. Notwithstanding the provisions of subdivision one of this
4 section, the sworn members of any police agency as defined in section
5 eight hundred thirty-five of the executive law, other than police agen-
6 cies referred to in subdivisions one-a through one-e of this section
7 shall be subject to the following procedure. Where, because of economy,
8 consolidation or abolition of functions, curtailment of activities or
9 otherwise, positions in the competitive class are abolished or reduced
10 in rank or salary grade, suspension or demotion, as the case may be,
11 among incumbents holding the same or similar positions shall be made in
12 the inverse order of original appointment on a permanent basis in the
13 grade or title in the service of the governmental jurisdiction in which
14 such abolition or reduction of positions occurs, subject to the
15 provisions of subdivision seven of section eighty-five of this chapter;
16 provided, however, that the date of original appointment of any such
17 incumbent who was transferred to such governmental jurisdiction from
18 another governmental jurisdiction upon the transfer of functions shall
19 be the date of original appointment on a permanent basis in the classi-
20 fied service in the service of the governmental jurisdiction from which
21 such transfer was made.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 Notwithstanding the provisions of this subdivision, however, upon the
2 abolition or reduction of positions in the competitive class, incumbents
3 holding the same or similar positions who have not completed their
4 probationary services shall be suspended or demoted, as the case may be,
5 before any permanent incumbents, and among such probationary employees
6 the order of suspension or demotion shall be determined as if such
7 employees were permanent incumbents.
8 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
