S158-2011 Actions

• Jan 4, 2012: REFERRED TO CIVIL SERVICE AND PENSIONS
• Jan 5, 2011: REFERRED TO CIVIL SERVICE AND PENSIONS

S158-2011 Meetings

S158-2011 Memo

BILL NUMBER:S158

TITLE OF BILL:
An act
to amend the civil service law, in relation to deferring eligible lists
for persons called to active duty in military service

PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL:
To allow civil service applicants on an eligible list to defer the
length of their eligibility in the even they are called to active
duty in military service.

SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS:
Amends Section 56 of the civil service law by providing that an
applicant on an eligible list for a civil service position who is
called up to active duty in military service can defer the length of
their eligibility by a period equal to the length of the active duty.

JUSTIFICATION:
Many civil service applicants are also servicemen and women. Otherwise
qualified and eligible civil service applicants should not have their
eligibility period truncated or eliminated simply because they are
called to active duty in military service.

PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:
S.4518A of 2009/2010; Referred to Civil Service and Pensions

FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:
None.

EFFECTIVE DATE:
Immediately.

S158-2011 Text

 S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 
 
                                          158
 2011-2012 Regular Sessions
 I N  SENATE
 (PREFILED)
 January 5, 2011
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. MAZIARZ -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
 printed to be committed to the Committee on Civil Service and Pensions
 

AN ACT to amend the civil service law, in relation to deferring eligible
 lists for persons called to active duty in military service
 THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

 

Section  1.  Subdivision  1 of section 56 of the civil service law, as
 amended by chapter 411 of the laws  of  1993,  is  amended  to  read  as
 follows:

 1.  The  duration  of an eligible list shall be fixed at not less than
 one nor more than four years; provided that, except for lists promulgat
 ed for police officer positions in jurisdictions other than the city  of
 New  York, in the event that a restriction against the filling of vacan
 cies exists in any jurisdiction, the state civil service  department  or
 municipal commission having jurisdiction shall, in the discretion of the
 department or commission, extend the duration of any eligible list for a
 period  equal  to  the length of such restriction against the filling of
 vacancies; AND PROVIDED FURTHER THAT, IN THE EVENT THAT AN APPLICANT  OR
 ELIGIBLE WHO IS ON AN ELIGIBLE LIST IS CALLED TO ACTIVE DUTY IN MILITARY
 SERVICE, AS SUCH TERM IS DEFINED IN SUBDIVISION ONE OF SECTION 10-102 OF
 THE  ELECTION  LAW,  THE  DURATION OF SUCH ELIGIBLE LIST WITH RESPECT TO
 SUCH APPLICANT OR ELIGIBLE SHALL BE DEFERRED FOR A PERIOD EQUAL  TO  THE
 LENGTH  OF  SUCH ACTIVE DUTY.  Restriction against the filling of vacan
 cies shall mean any policy, whether by  executive  order  or  otherwise,
 which,  because of a financial emergency, prevents or limits the filling
 of vacancies in a title for which a list has been promulgated. An eligi
 ble list that has been in existence for one year or more shall terminate
 upon the establishment of an  appropriate  new  list,  unless  otherwise
 prescribed by the state civil service department or municipal commission
 having jurisdiction.
 

S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD01685-01-1

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