What's happening
This bill allows municipally or authority-run airports in New York to permanently hire or promote employees for key management and supervisory positions without a civil service list if no eligible list exists.
Why it matters
Responds to staffing shortages for critical airport roles. By allowing permanent appointments without a civil service list when none exists, the bill helps airports quickly fill essential management and supervisory positions, reducing delays that could impact airport operations and safety.
Increases local flexibility and control. Municipal and authority-run airports would have more discretion to assess and designate candidates as qualified, which could improve hiring outcomes for specialized or hard-to-fill jobs that require unique expertise.
Limits to prevent misuse. The bill restricts this flexibility to specific, high-level roles, and maintains safeguards by requiring that appointments be appropriate to the job's duties and only used when no eligible list is available, aiming to balance operational needs with fair employment practices.
Potentially changes hiring dynamics. This measure could affect how airport jobs are advertised and filled, potentially reducing reliance on standardized civil service exams for key leadership roles, and may have implications for workforce diversity and the traditional merit-based hiring system.
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STATE OF NEW YORK
938
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY (Prefiled)
January 8, 2025
Introduced by M. of A. MAGNARELLI, LUPARDO, STIRPE, BURDICK, SEAWRIGHT -- read once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Employees
AN ACT to amend the civil service law, in relation to authorizing municipal 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 Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Section 65 of the civil service law is amended by adding a new subdivision 5 to read as follows:
5. Municipal owned and/or operated airports. Notwithstanding any law, rule or regulation to the contrary, municipally owned and/or operated airports including those airports owned and/or operated by a New York public authority may: (a) appoint or promote to a permanent position in the exempt class for titles that are critical airport management and supervisory positions that include but are not limited to airport or authority: director and assistant director; manager or assistant manager; aircraft rescue and firefighting chief; aviation finance director; commercial development officer; aviation security, operations responsible for FAR Part 139 compliance; and chief operating officer; whenever there is no appropriate eligible list available for filling a vacancy in the selective exempt class; (b) if such appointee shall be determined by such airport or authority as qualified; and (c) no person shall be appointed, promoted or employed under any title not appropriate to the duties to be performed and, except upon assignment by proper authority during the continuance of a temporary emergency situation, no person shall be assigned to perform the duties of any position unless such person has been duly appointed, promoted, transferred or reinstated to such position in accordance with the provisions of this subdivision and the rules prescribed thereunder.
§ 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD01294-01-5
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