Bill Text: OH HB20 | 2009-2010 | 128th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: To eliminate the requirement that a veteran be a resident of Ohio to qualify to receive the veterans preference on civil service examinations.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 5-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-02-18 - To Veterans Affairs [HB20 Detail]
Download: Ohio-2009-HB20-Introduced.html
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Representative Stebelton
Cosponsors:
Representatives Evans, Blessing, Murray, Morgan, Jordan
To amend section 124.23 of the Revised Code to | 1 |
eliminate the requirement that a veteran be a | 2 |
resident of Ohio to qualify to receive the | 3 |
veterans preference on civil service examinations. | 4 |
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF OHIO:
Section 1. That section 124.23 of the Revised Code be amended | 5 |
to read as follows: | 6 |
Sec. 124.23. (A) All applicants for positions and places in | 7 |
the classified service shall be subject to examination, except for | 8 |
applicants for positions as professional or certified service and | 9 |
paraprofessional employees of county boards of mental retardation | 10 |
and developmental disabilities, who shall be hired in the manner | 11 |
provided in section 124.241 of the Revised Code. | 12 |
(B) Any examination administered under this section shall be | 13 |
public and be open to all citizens of the United States and those | 14 |
persons who have legally declared their intentions of becoming | 15 |
United States citizens, within certain limitations to be | 16 |
determined by the director of administrative services as to | 17 |
citizenship, age, experience, education, health, habit, and moral | 18 |
character. Any person who has completed service in the uniformed | 19 |
services | 20 |
services or transferred to the reserve with evidence of | 21 |
satisfactory service | 22 |
member of the national guard or a reserve component of the armed | 23 |
forces of the United States who has completed more than one | 24 |
hundred eighty days of active duty service pursuant to an | 25 |
executive order of the president of the United States or an act of | 26 |
the congress of the United States may file with the director a | 27 |
certificate of service or honorable discharge, and, upon this | 28 |
filing, the person shall receive additional credit of twenty per | 29 |
cent of the person's total grade given in the regular examination | 30 |
in which the person receives a passing grade. | 31 |
As used in this division, "service in the uniformed services" | 32 |
and "uniformed services" have the same meanings as in the | 33 |
"Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act of | 34 |
1994," 108 Stat. 3149, 38 U.S.C.A. 4303. | 35 |
(C) An examination may include an evaluation of such factors | 36 |
as education, training, capacity, knowledge, manual dexterity, and | 37 |
physical or psychological fitness. An examination shall consist of | 38 |
one or more tests in any combination. Tests may be written, oral, | 39 |
physical, demonstration of skill, or an evaluation of training and | 40 |
experiences and shall be designed to fairly test the relative | 41 |
capacity of the persons examined to discharge the particular | 42 |
duties of the position for which appointment is sought. Tests may | 43 |
include structured interviews, assessment centers, work | 44 |
simulations, examinations of knowledge, skills, and abilities, and | 45 |
any other acceptable testing methods. If minimum or maximum | 46 |
requirements are established for any examination, they shall be | 47 |
specified in the examination announcement. | 48 |
(D) The director of administrative services shall have | 49 |
control of all examinations, except as otherwise provided in | 50 |
sections 124.01 to 124.64 of the Revised Code. No questions in any | 51 |
examination shall relate to political or religious opinions or | 52 |
affiliations. No credit for seniority, efficiency, or any other | 53 |
reason shall be added to an applicant's examination grade unless | 54 |
the applicant achieves at least the minimum passing grade on the | 55 |
examination without counting that extra credit. | 56 |
(E) Except as otherwise provided in sections 124.01 to 124.64 | 57 |
of the Revised Code, the director of administrative services shall | 58 |
give reasonable notice of the time, place, and general scope of | 59 |
every competitive examination for appointment to a position in the | 60 |
civil service. The director shall send written, printed, or | 61 |
electronic notices of every examination to be conducted in the | 62 |
state classified service to each agency of the type the director | 63 |
of job and family services specifies and, in the case of a county | 64 |
in which no such agency is located, to the clerk of the court of | 65 |
common pleas of that county and to the clerk of each city located | 66 |
within that county. Those notices shall be posted in conspicuous | 67 |
public places in the designated agencies or the courthouse, and | 68 |
city hall of the cities, of the counties in which no designated | 69 |
agency is located for at least two weeks preceding any examination | 70 |
involved, and in a conspicuous place in the office of the director | 71 |
of administrative services for at least two weeks preceding any | 72 |
examination involved. In case of examinations limited by the | 73 |
director to a district, county, city, or department, the director | 74 |
shall provide by rule for adequate publicity of an examination in | 75 |
the district, county, city, or department within which competition | 76 |
is permitted. | 77 |
Section 2. That existing section 124.23 of the Revised Code | 78 |
is hereby repealed. | 79 |