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

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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]

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8574

                               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

        AN ACT to amend the civil service law, in relation to  the  compensation
          paid  to  persons  employed  in  positions  requiring foreign language
          skills, requiring the establishment  of  career  ladders  for  persons
          holding  such  positions, requiring establishment of supervisory posi-
          tions for persons  required  to  have  foreign  language  skills,  and
          requiring  the  department  of civil service to annually report to the
          governor and the legislature on persons in state service holding posi-
          tions requiring foreign language skills

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

     1    Section 1. Section 121 of the civil service law is amended by adding a
     2  new subdivision 2-a to read as follows:
     3    2-a.  Positions requiring foreign language skills. The director of the
     4  classification and compensation division  shall  classify  any  position
     5  requiring  foreign  language  skills to be paid a differential as deter-
     6  mined by the director  for  permanent  competitive  and  non-competitive
     7  employees  in  a  language parenthetics title or in a position where the
     8  duties require them to use a foreign language. In addition such director
     9  shall establish and classify supervisory positions for employees who are
    10  required to have foreign language  skills  such  that  such  persons  in
    11  supervisory  positions  are  adequately  compensated  for their language
    12  skills and experience, and who are able  to  effectively  supervise  and
    13  evaluate persons holding positions requiring foreign language skills.
    14    §  2.  Subdivision 5 of section 121 of the civil service law, as added
    15  by chapter 907 of the laws of 1971, is amended to read as follows:
    16    5. Career ladders. The director of the classification and compensation
    17  division may, in order to implement a plan for the progressive  advance-
    18  ment of employees in an occupational group, based on their acquiring, as
    19  prescribed  by  such director, of either training or experience or both,

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  reclassify the positions of the incumbents who meet the prescribed qual-
     2  ifications to titles allocated to higher salary grades. The  advancement
     3  of  an  incumbent  pursuant to this subdivision is not, and is not to be
     4  deemed,  a  reallocation. The director of the classification and compen-
     5  sation division shall, in order to provide for the progressive  advance-
     6  ment  of  employees  in  an occupational group who were required to have
     7  foreign language skills, reclassify and promote such employees to higher
     8  positions and salary grades.
     9    § 3. The civil service law is amended by adding a new section  124  to
    10  read as follows:
    11    §  124. Reports; foreign language skills. The department shall annual-
    12  ly, on or before the first of March, report  to  the  governor  and  the
    13  legislature  on  employees  in  state  service  who are required to have
    14  foreign language skills. Such report shall include, but not  be  limited
    15  to:
    16    1. the number of employees required to have foreign language skills;
    17    2. the salaries paid to such employees;
    18    3.  the state agency employing such employees and the location of such
    19  agency;
    20    4. the gender of such employees;
    21    5. the ethnicities of such employees;
    22    6. the number of such employees taking  exams  for  supervisory  posi-
    23  tions;
    24    7.  the  exams  for  positions  which  do not require foreign language
    25  skills which are made available to such employees; and
    26    8. the number of such employees who have been  advanced  to  positions
    27  which do not require foreign language skills.
    28    §  4.  Subdivision 2 of section 130 of the civil service law, as added
    29  by chapter 307 of the laws of 1979, is amended to read as follows:
    30    2. Allocation of positions.  All positions allocated pursuant to title
    31  A of this article [eight of this  chapter]  shall  be  allocated  to  an
    32  appropriate  salary  grade  as  prescribed  in  subdivision  one of this
    33  section, and all positions in a promotional series shall be allocated to
    34  salary grades which properly reflect the varying degrees of responsibil-
    35  ities and duties to be performed,  and  training  and  foreign  language
    36  skills required.
    37    §  5.  This act shall take effect immediately; provided, however, that
    38  section two of this act shall take effect on the one  hundred  eightieth
    39  day  after it shall have become a law.  Effective immediately, the addi-
    40  tion, amendment and/or repeal of any rule or  regulation  necessary  for
    41  the  implementation  of this act on its effective date are authorized to
    42  be made and completed on or before such effective date.