New York S 713: Enacts the "unique abilities employment act"

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S00713 Summary:

BILL NOS00713 

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SAME ASSAME AS A10195

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SPONSORRHOADS

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COSPNSR

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MLTSPNSR

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Add §55-d, Civ Serv L

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Enacts the "unique abilities employment act" relating to the employment of persons with developmental disabilities by school districts.

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01/08/2025REFERRED TO CIVIL SERVICE AND PENSIONS

01/07/2026REFERRED TO CIVIL SERVICE AND PENSIONS

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 713

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 (Prefiled)

 January 8, 2025
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 Introduced by Sen. RHOADS -- 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 the employment of
 persons with developmental disabilities by school districts

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

 1 Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may be cited as
 2 the "unique abilities employment act".
 3 § 2. The civil service law is amended by adding a new section 55-d to
 4 read as follows:
 5 § 55-d. Employment of persons with developmental disabilities by
 6 school districts. 1. The commission may determine up to seventeen
 7 hundred positions in a school district with duties such as can be
 8 performed by persons with developmental disabilities, including intel-
 9 lectual disabilities, cerebral palsy, Down syndrome, autism spectrum
 10 disorders, Prader-Willi syndrome and other neurological impairments who
 11 are found otherwise qualified to perform satisfactorily the duties of
 12 any such position. Positions designated to be filled pursuant to this
 13 section may be filled on a full-time or part-time basis. Upon such
 14 determination the said positions shall be classified in the noncompet-
 15 itive class, and may be filled only by persons who shall have been
 16 certified by the employee health service of the department or the office
 17 for people with developmental disabilities, as being a person with a
 18 developmental disability. The number of persons appointed pursuant to
 19 this section shall not exceed seventeen hundred.
 20 2. Those employees hired pursuant to subdivision one of this section,
 21 shall be afforded the same opportunity to take promotional examinations
 22 as provided to employees in the competitive class.
 23 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD02648-01-5

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