Bill Text: NY A03755 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to prohibiting retroactive minimum conditions of employment; provides that the employment of an employee who met the minimum qualifications or conditions for employment at the time of appointment may not be terminated or separated from service based on any new qualifications or conditions of employment enacted after the date of appointment to such civil service position.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to governmental employees [A03755 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A03755-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3755

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 7, 2023
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        Introduced  by  M.  of A. PHEFFER AMATO -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Governmental Employees

        AN ACT to amend the civil service law, in relation to prohibiting retro-
          active minimum conditions of employment

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

     1    Section  1.  The  civil service law is amended by adding a new section
     2  54-a to read as follows:
     3    § 54-a. Retroactive minimum conditions of employment.  Notwithstanding
     4  any provision of law to the contrary, the state or any political  subdi-
     5  vision  or  authority  thereof shall not retroactively apply new minimum
     6  qualifications or conditions of employment for any civil  service  posi-
     7  tion.  The  employment of an employee who met the minimum qualifications
     8  or conditions for employment at the  time  of  appointment  may  not  be
     9  terminated  or separated from service based on any new qualifications or
    10  conditions of employment enacted after the date of appointment  to  such
    11  civil  service  position.    Any  employee  terminated or separated from
    12  service in violation of this section shall be reinstated to service  and
    13  deemed to have been in continuous service for all purposes.
    14    §  2.  This  act  shall take effect immediately and shall be deemed to
    15  have been in effect on and after March 16, 2020.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD07881-01-3