New York S 337: Allows municipal commissions to use alternate lists for filling vacancies with resident and non-resident minority group members and women in order to achieve diversity in police departments

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S00337 Summary:

BILL NOS00337 

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SAME ASSAME AS A05490

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SPONSORBAILEY

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COSPNSR

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §23, Civ Serv L

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Allows municipal commissions to use alternate lists for filling vacancies with resident and non-resident minority group members and women in order to achieve diversity in police departments.

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BILL NOS00337 

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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
 ________________________________________________________________________

 337

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 (Prefiled)

 January 8, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sen. BAILEY -- 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 appointments from
 eligible lists

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

 1 Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section 23 of the civil service law, as
 2 amended by chapter 403 of the laws of 2011, is amended and a new subdi-
 3 vision 4-c is added to read as follows:
 4 4. Use of state and county eligible lists, as the source of new hires,
 5 by municipal commissions. A municipal commission, in the absence of an
 6 eligible list of its own, may request the state civil service depart-
 7 ment, county civil service commission or county personnel officer to
 8 furnish it with the names of persons on an appropriate eligible list
 9 established by the department, commission or personnel officer, which,
 10 if so requested by the municipal commission, shall be limited to resi-
 11 dents of the city, or town or civil division in which appointments are
 12 to be made, or to residents of the county or judicial district in which
 13 such city, town or civil division is located, or to any reasonable
 14 combination of political subdivisions both in and outside of New York
 15 state contiguous to the city or civil division in which appointment is
 16 to be made or contiguous to the political subdivision in which such city
 17 or civil division is located, except for the position of director of
 18 facilities I, II, & III of a school district located within the state
 19 which shall use the list developed pursuant to subdivision five of
 20 section seventeen of this [chapter] title. Such municipal commission may
 21 certify such names for appointment to a position under its jurisdiction
 22 in the same manner as certifications are made from the eligible lists of
 23 such commission. If the state civil service department, county civil
 24 service commission or county personnel officer, upon the request of such

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD00234-01-5

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 1 commission, has certified an appropriate eligible list to fill a partic-
 2 ular position, such list shall continue to be used until superseded by
 3 an eligible list established by such municipal commission for such posi-
 4 tion, or until such list expires or is exhausted or is otherwise termi-
 5 nated.
 6 4-c. Alternate lists for police departments. Police departments where
 7 a list pursuant to subdivision four of this section does not adequately
 8 represent minority populations and the existing police department's
 9 ethnic, racial or women composition deviates from the community upon
 10 which they serve by twenty-five percent or more, a municipal commission
 11 may use alternate lists, including but not limited to the county list,
 12 for the filling of vacancies by both resident and non-resident minority
 13 group members, as defined by section three hundred ten of the executive
 14 law, and women in order to achieve diversity in the workforce. Alternate
 15 lists created by police departments in surrounding municipalities shall
 16 be provided and police departments shall hire from such alternate lists
 17 until such police department's ethnic, racial or women composition no
 18 longer deviates from the community upon which they serve by twenty-five