Prevents an agency, department, division, commission, bureau or any other entity under the authority of the executive department from contracting, subcontracting or hiring any third party during a hiring freeze.
NEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLY MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT OF LEGISLATION submitted in accordance with Assembly Rule III, Sec 1(f)
BILL NUMBER: A1396
SPONSOR: Eachus TITLE OF BILL:
An act to amend the civil service law, in relation to preventing
outsourcing during a hiring freeze
PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL:
To prevent outsourcing during a hiring freeze.
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:
Section 1. Establishes that no entity under the control of the executive
shall contract, subcontract, or hire any third party during a hiring
freeze.
Section 2. Establishes an effective date.
JUSTIFICATION:
When this bill was originally introduced in 2021 there were more than
5,000 vacant full-time equivalent state positions, many of which were
critical positions that would normally provide middle-class incomes to
hard working state residents. Those positions remained unfilled for an
extended period of time because of a hiring freeze put in place by the
Governor, at the time. In order to ameliorate service deficiencies
caused by the filling of those positions, the Governor started to
outsource services that would normally be carried out by the state's
workforce.
If this were to happen again, it could result in the permanent displace-
ment of state jobs that provide state residents with a means of achiev-
ing a middle-class life. This bill would preserve the economic opportu-
nities these positions provide by prohibiting the outsourcing of
services that would otherwise be performed by the state's unionized
workforce.
PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:
2023-24
A9003: Passed Assembly, S4132: Reported from Civil Service and Pensions
(died in Finance)
2021-22
A7863: Reported from Governmental Employees (died in Ways and Means),
S6561: Reported from Civil Service and Pensions (died in Finance)
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS FOR STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS:
To be determined.
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect immediately.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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1396
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 9, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. EACHUS, DINOWITZ, KELLES, COLTON, ALVAREZ,
STIRPE, RAMOS, REYES, BURDICK, TAYLOR, WALKER, JACKSON, CUNNINGHAM,
SIMON, SANTABARBARA -- read once and referred to the Committee on
Governmental Employees
AN ACT to amend the civil service law, in relation to preventing
outsourcing during a hiring freeze
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The civil service law is amended by adding a new section 66
2 to read as follows:
3 § 66. Hiring freeze. Upon the enactment of a hiring freeze, no agency,
4 department, division, commission, bureau or any other entity under the
5 authority of the executive department shall contract, subcontract or
6 hire any third party to perform services that would otherwise be carried
7 out by an employee whose terms of employment are subject to a collective
8 bargaining agreement or other analogous contract and who is subject to
9 such hiring freeze.
10 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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