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H. B. No. 20 As IntroducedAs Introduced
128th General Assembly | Regular Session | 2009-2010 |
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Cosponsors:
Representatives Evans, Blessing, Murray, Morgan, Jordan
A BILL
To amend section 124.23 of the Revised Code to
eliminate the requirement that a veteran be a
resident of Ohio to qualify to receive the
veterans preference on civil service examinations.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF OHIO:
Section 1. That section 124.23 of the Revised Code be amended
to read as follows:
Sec. 124.23. (A) All applicants for positions and places
in
the classified service shall be subject to examination, except
for
applicants for positions as professional or certified service
and
paraprofessional employees of county boards of mental
retardation
and developmental disabilities, who shall be hired in
the manner
provided in section 124.241 of the Revised Code.
(B) Any examination administered under this section shall be
public and be open to all citizens of the United States and those
persons who have legally declared their intentions of becoming
United States citizens, within certain limitations to be
determined by the director of administrative services as to
citizenship,
age, experience, education, health,
habit,
and moral
character. Any person who has completed service in the uniformed
services, and who has been honorably discharged from the uniformed
services or
transferred
to the reserve with evidence of
satisfactory service,
and who is a
resident of this state and any
member of the national guard or a reserve component of the armed
forces of the United States who has completed more than one
hundred eighty days of active duty service pursuant to an
executive order of the president of the United States or an act of
the congress of the United States may file with the director a
certificate of service or honorable discharge,
and, upon this
filing, the
person shall
receive additional credit of twenty per
cent of the person's
total grade given in the regular examination
in which the person receives a
passing grade.
As used in this division, "service in the
uniformed services"
and "uniformed services" have the same
meanings as in the
"Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment
Rights Act of
1994," 108 Stat. 3149, 38 U.S.C.A. 4303.
(C) An examination
may include an evaluation of such
factors
as education, training,
capacity, knowledge, manual
dexterity, and
physical or
psychological fitness. An examination
shall consist of
one or more
tests in any combination. Tests may
be written, oral,
physical,
demonstration of skill, or an
evaluation of training and
experiences and shall be designed to
fairly test the relative
capacity of the persons examined to
discharge the particular
duties of the position for which
appointment is sought. Tests may
include structured interviews, assessment centers, work
simulations, examinations of knowledge, skills, and abilities, and
any other acceptable testing methods. If
minimum or maximum
requirements are
established for any
examination, they shall be
specified in the
examination
announcement.
(D) The director of administrative services shall have
control of
all
examinations, except
as otherwise provided in
sections 124.01
to 124.64 of the Revised
Code. No questions in any
examination
shall relate to political
or religious opinions or
affiliations.
No credit for seniority,
efficiency, or any other
reason shall be
added to an applicant's
examination grade unless
the applicant
achieves at least the
minimum passing grade on the
examination
without counting
that extra credit.
(E) Except as otherwise provided in sections 124.01 to 124.64
of
the Revised Code, the director of administrative services shall
give reasonable notice
of the time, place, and general scope of
every competitive examination for appointment to a position in
the
civil service. The director shall send
written, printed, or
electronic notices
of
every examination to be conducted in
the
state classified service to each agency of the type
the
director
of job and family services specifies and, in the case of
a county
in which no such agency is located, to the clerk of the
court of
common pleas
of
that county and to the clerk of each city
located
within
that county. Those notices shall be
posted in conspicuous
public places in the designated agencies
or
the courthouse, and
city hall of the
cities, of the counties in
which no designated
agency is located for at least two weeks preceding any examination
involved, and in
a conspicuous place in the office of
the director
of
administrative services for at least two weeks preceding
any
examination involved. In case of examinations limited by the
director
to a district, county, city, or
department,
the director
shall provide
by rule for adequate publicity
of an examination in
the
district, county, city, or department within which
competition
is
permitted.
Section 2. That existing section 124.23 of the Revised Code
is hereby repealed.
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