Bill Text: NY A08574 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Assembly Bill 8574 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Relates to compensation paid to persons employed in positions requiring foreign language skills; establishes career ladders for persons holding such positions; establishes supervisory positions for persons required to have foreign language skills.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 10-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-02-25 - reported referred to ways and means [A08574 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A08574-Amended.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         8574--A

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                   September 13, 2019
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. REYES -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Governmental Employees -- recommitted to the Committee  on  Govern-
          mental Employees in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- commit-
          tee  discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recom-
          mitted to said committee

        AN ACT to amend the civil service law, in relation to  the  compensation
          paid  to  persons  employed  in  positions  requiring foreign language
          skills and directing the department of  civil  service  to  conduct  a
          study  on  certain  job  titles that require proficiency in a language
          other than English

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

     1    Section 1. Section 130 of the civil service law is amended by adding a
     2  new subdivision 15 to read as follows:
     3    15.  The director of classification and compensation shall, subject to
     4  the approval of the director of the budget, establish a pay differential
     5  for titles that require specialized skill, ability, training,  or  know-
     6  ledge  including,  but  not  limited to, proficiency in a language other
     7  than English.
     8    § 2. The department of civil service is hereby directed to  conduct  a
     9  study  and  publish  a  report  on civil service job titles that require
    10  proficiency in a language other than English. The study and report shall
    11  include, but not be limited to:
    12    1. a list of employees in job titles that  require  proficiency  in  a
    13  language other than English and the number of employees in each title;
    14    2.  the jurisdictional classification and appointment type of such job
    15  titles;
    16    3. the salary grades and allocations of such job titles;
    17    4. a determination of whether the current salary allocations for  each
    18  job title adequately reflect the title's responsibilities and duties;

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13592-03-0

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     1    5.  whether any changes should be made to the current job descriptions
     2  of such job titles to reflect more accurately the actual duties of  such
     3  titles;
     4    6.  the  gender  and race/ethnicity identification of the employees in
     5  such job titles;
     6    7. a list of state offices and/or departments with employees  in  such
     7  job titles and the location of such job titles;
     8    8.  the  number of times that examinations are held for appointment or
     9  promotion into titles that require proficiency in a language other  than
    10  English in the past five years;
    11    9. the number of individuals that have taken examinations for appoint-
    12  ment  or  promotion  into  titles that require proficiency in a language
    13  other than English in the past five years;
    14    10. the number of times that existing employees in titles that require
    15  proficiency in a language other than English advanced to a different job
    16  title within the past five years; and
    17    11. a determination of whether there should be a career ladder for job
    18  titles that require proficiency in a language other than English.
    19    § 3. Every public employer as defined in this  section  shall  provide
    20  all  requested  assistance  and  information  to the department of civil
    21  service in conducting the study required by this act. It  shall  be  the
    22  duty  of  each  officer of the public employer to comply with and aid in
    23  all proper ways in carrying into effect the provisions  of  this  study.
    24  For  the  purposes  of  this  act, the term "public employer" shall mean
    25  those employers with offices and positions in the classified service  of
    26  the  state  and  its  civil  divisions and the term "classified service"
    27  shall have the same meaning as in section 40 of the civil service law.
    28    § 4. The department of  civil  service  shall  submit  such  published
    29  report  pursuant to section two of this act to the speaker of the assem-
    30  bly, the minority leader of the assembly, the temporary president of the
    31  senate, the minority leader of the senate, and the governor's office  of
    32  employee  relations  no  later than one year after the effective date of
    33  this act.
    34    § 5. This act shall take effect immediately.