New York A 6837: Relates to gender indication on insurance claim forms

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A06837 Summary:

BILL NOA06837 

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SAME ASSAME AS S05459

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SPONSOREpstein

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COSPNSRBurdick, Gallagher, Seawright, Santabarbara, Lunsford, Sayegh, Hevesi, Cruz, Lemondes, DeStefano,
 Meeks, Gibbs, Cook, Raga, Colton, Glick, McMahon, Cunningham, Reyes, Taylor, Shimsky, Simon,
 Kelles, Eachus, Zinerman

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MLTSPNSRBrabenec

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Amd §§55-b & 55-c, Civ Serv L

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Relates to employment of persons and veterans with disabilities by the state; provides up to five thousand positions may be filled by persons with a physical or mental disability and up to two thousand positions may be filled by disabled veterans and veterans with disabilities.

Go to top A06837 Actions:

BILL NOA06837 

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03/14/2025referred to governmental employees

12/08/2025enacting clause stricken

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 6837

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 March 14, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. EPSTEIN, BURDICK, GALLAGHER, SEAWRIGHT, SANTABAR-
 BARA, LUNSFORD, SAYEGH, HEVESI, CRUZ, LEMONDES, DeSTEFANO, MEEKS,
 GIBBS, COOK, RAGA, COLTON, GLICK, McMAHON, CUNNINGHAM, REYES, TAYLOR,
 SHIMSKY, SIMON, KELLES, EACHUS, ZINERMAN -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M.
 of A. BRABENEC -- read once and referred to the Committee on Govern-
 mental Employees

 AN ACT to amend the civil service law, in relation to employment of
 persons and veterans with disabilities by the state

 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
 bly, do enact as follows:

 1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 55-b of the civil service law, as
 2 separately amended by section 1 of part T of chapter 55 and chapter 521
 3 of the laws of 2023, is amended to read as follows:
 4 1. The commission may determine up to [seventeen hundred] five thou-
 5 sand positions with duties such as can be performed by persons with a
 6 physical or mental disability who are found otherwise qualified to
 7 perform satisfactorily the duties of any such position. Positions desig-
 8 nated to be filled pursuant to this section may be filled on a full-time
 9 or part-time basis. Upon such determination the said positions shall be
 10 classified in the noncompetitive class, and may be filled only by
 11 persons who shall have been certified by the employee health service of
 12 the department as being a person with either a physical or mental disa-
 13 bility. The number of persons appointed pursuant to this section shall
 14 not exceed [seventeen hundred] five thousand.
 15 § 2. Subdivision 1 of section 55-c of the civil service law, as sepa-
 16 rately amended by chapters 521 and 618 of the laws of 2023, is amended
 17 to read as follows:
 18 1. The commission may determine up to [five hundred] two thousand
 19 positions with duties such as can be performed by disabled veterans and
 20 veterans with disabilities who are found otherwise qualified to perform
 21 satisfactorily the duties of any such position. Positions designated to

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD09678-01-5

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 1 be filled pursuant to this section may be filled on a full-time or part-
 2 time basis. Upon such determination, the said positions shall be classi-
 3 fied in the noncompetitive class, and may be filled only by veterans of
 4 the armed forces of the United States (a) who establish by appropriate
 5 documentary evidence that they are disabled veterans, as defined in
 6 paragraph (b) of subdivision one of section eighty-five of this chapter,
 7 or (b) by those veterans, as defined in paragraph (a) of subdivision one
 8 of section eighty-five of this chapter, who shall have been certified by
 9 the employee health service of the department as being disabled but
 10 capable of performing the duties of said positions. Priority in certif-
 11 ication and referral of both such disabled veterans and certified disa-
 12 bled but capable veterans shall be given to those veterans who received
 13 a wound in combat, as documented by the awarding of the purpl