NY A05490

Amends civil service law to clarify that state and county eligible lists serve "as the source of new hires" for municipal commissions lacking their own lists

Creates new provision allowing police departments to use alternate hiring lists when their ethnic, racial, or gender composition deviates by 25% or more from the community they serve

Permits hiring from alternate lists, including county lists and lists from surrounding municipalities, to recruit both resident and non-resident minority group members and women

Requires police departments to continue using alternate lists until workforce diversity reaches within 25% of community demographics, after which they must return to their own eligible lists

Maintains merit-based hiring standards, with the "rule of three" applying to candidate selection from alternate lists