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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                         9540--A
                                                                Cal. No. 867
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                       May 6, 2014
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced by M. of A. ABBATE -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on  Governmental  Employees  -- reported from committee, advanced to a
          third reading, amended and ordered reprinted, retaining its  place  on
          the order of third reading
 
        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  civil service law, in relation to suspension or

          demotion upon the abolition or reduction of positions
 
          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,  employees of the city school district of the city of New York,
     5  appointed to the titles of occupational therapist-BOE or physical thera-
     6  pist-BOE, shall be subject to the following procedure: where, because of
     7  economy, consolidation or abolition of function, curtailment  of  activ-
     8  ities or otherwise, positions in the competitive class are abolished, or

     9  reduced in rank or salary grade, suspension or demotion, as the case may
    10  be,  among  incumbents  holding  the same or similar positions, shall be
    11  made in the inverse order of original appointment on a  permanent  basis
    12  in the grade or title in the service of the governmental jurisdiction in
    13  which  such  abolition  or reduction of positions occurs, subject to the
    14  provisions of subdivision seven of section eighty-five of this  chapter;
    15  provided,  however,  that  if any person so employed was employed in the
    16  title of  occupational  therapist-BOE,  physical  therapist-BOE,  senior
    17  occupational therapist-BOE, senior physical therapist-BOE or supervising
    18  therapist  prior to the first day of January, two thousand fourteen, for

    19  purposes of this subdivision regarding priority of retention and for  no
    20  other purpose, the date of original appointment of any such person shall
    21  be  deemed  to  be the date such employment commenced prior to the first
    22  day of January, two thousand fourteen.
    23    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14988-02-4