Bill Text: NY A06736 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Authorizes the hiring and promotion of employees on a permanent basis at municipal and/or authority owned or operated airports.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-02-29 - print number 6736a [A06736 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A06736-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         6736--A

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                       May 8, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M. of A. MAGNARELLI, LUPARDO, STIRPE, BURDICK, SEAWRIGHT
          -- read once and referred to the Committee on  Governmental  Employees
          --  recommitted  to the Committee on Governmental Employees in accord-
          ance with Assembly Rule  3,  sec.  2  --  committee  discharged,  bill
          amended,  ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
          tee

        AN ACT to amend the civil service law, in relation to authorizing munic-
          ipal and/or authority owned or operated airports to hire  and  promote
          employees on a permanent basis

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

     1    Section 1. Section 65 of the civil service law is amended by adding  a
     2  new subdivision 5 to read as follows:
     3    5. Municipal owned and/or operated airports.  Notwithstanding any law,
     4  rule  or  regulation  to the contrary, municipally owned and/or operated
     5  airports including those airports owned and/or operated by  a  New  York
     6  public  authority may: (a) appoint or promote to a permanent position in
     7  the exempt class for titles that are  critical  airport  management  and
     8  supervisory  positions  that  include  but are not limited to airport or
     9  authority: director and assistant director; manager or assistant  manag-
    10  er;  aircraft  rescue and firefighting chief; aviation finance director;
    11  commercial development officer; aviation security, operations  responsi-
    12  ble  for  FAR Part 139 compliance; and chief operating officer; whenever
    13  there is no appropriate eligible list available for filling a vacancy in
    14  the selective exempt class; (b) if such appointee shall be determined by
    15  such airport or authority as qualified;  and  (c)  no  person  shall  be
    16  appointed,  promoted  or employed under any title not appropriate to the
    17  duties to be performed and, except upon assignment by  proper  authority
    18  during  the  continuance  of  a temporary emergency situation, no person
    19  shall be assigned to perform the duties of any position unless he or she
    20  has been duly appointed, promoted, transferred  or  reinstated  to  such

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  position  in  accordance with the provisions of this subdivision and the
     2  rules prescribed thereunder.
     3    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
     4  have become a law.