What's happening
This bill allows appointing officers to request that interdepartmental and departmental promotion lists be certified simultaneously without departmental preference.
Why it matters
May increase flexibility and speed in hiring for promotions. By allowing appointing officers to request simultaneous certification of both interdepartmental and departmental promotion lists, agencies could fill positions faster, instead of waiting for one list to be exhausted.
Could broaden candidate pools for promotions. This change enables consideration of qualified candidates from multiple departments at the same time, potentially improving workforce diversity and bringing in a wider range of skills and experience for promotional roles.
Adds transparency and accountability. The requirement for a written request stating reasons introduces a layer of oversight, ensuring that simultaneous certification isn't used arbitrarily, and that there’s a record of why the standard order was bypassed.
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Who cares
State appointing officers
The bill would let them submit a written request stating reasons for certifying interdepartmental and departmental promotion lists without preference for the departmental list.
Department of Civil Service
The department would gain discretion to approve those requests before a department’s own promotion list is exhausted.
Employees on departmental promotion lists
They could lose their list’s priority when the Department of Civil Service certifies both lists under the new exception.
Employees on interdepartmental promotion lists
They could be considered for promotions before the hiring department exhausts its own promotion list.
Headline styles
Change Promotion List Rules
Plain English, a few words. Used as the page title.
Sponsors
No co-sponsors yet.
History
- Referred to civil service and pensions
- Referred to civil service and pensions
Full text
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STATE OF NEW YORK
5255
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
March 17, 2017
Introduced by Sen. GOLDEN -- (at request of the Department of Civil Service) -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Civil Service and Pensions
AN ACT to amend the civil service law, in relation to interdepartmental promotion lists
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section 52 of the civil service law, as added by chapter 790 of the laws of 1958, is amended to read as follows:
4. Departmental and interdepartmental promotion lists. The state civil service department and municipal commissions may establish interdepartmental promotion lists which shall not be certified to a department until after the promotion eligible list for that department has been exhausted, except that upon the written request of the appointing officer stating the reasons therefor, the state civil service department may certify an interdepartmental promotion eligible list and a departmental promotion eligible list without preference to the departmental promotion eligible list.
§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD09981-01-7
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Sponsor's memo
Title of bill
An act to amend the civil service law, in relation to interdepartmental promotion lists
Purpose of the bill
This bill would amend the Civil Service Law ("CSL") to authorize the Department of Civil Service ("Department"), upon an agency's request, to certify an interdepartmental promotion list and a departmental promotion list without preference to the departmental promotion list.
Summary of provisions
Section 1 of the bill would amend CSL § 52(4) to authorize the Department, upon an agency's request, to certify an interdepartmental promotion list and a department promotion list without preference to the departmental promotion list.
Section 2 of the bill would make it effective immediately.
Justification
New York State's ability to effectively implement public policy and provide critical services relies upon an effectively managed workforce. To this end, this bill would allow agencies to consider comparable or higher-scoring candidates - all of whom are already State employees - on an interdepartmental promotion list.
Currently, a State agency must exhaust an eligible list limited to employees of the agency before it can consider eligible candidates from other state agencies - even those who attained a higher score from an interdepartmental list. This bill would allow an agency the option to select from a larger interdepartmental list consisting of more candidates. Equally important, this bill would benefit employees by providing them with potentially greater promotional opportunities and options, particularly those candidates who work for agencies with limited vacancies or promotional opportunities, thus better enabling the State to retain needed talent.
Nothing in this bill precludes an agency from making promotions from its own department list in the same manner as provided currently; it simply provides an option to allow an agency to fill positions from a broader talent pool if it doesn't have viable candidates within the agency's existing talent pool.
Prior legislative history
None.
Fiscal implications
None.
Effective date
Immediately.
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