New York Laws
Title A - Organization and Functions of State Civil Service Department
7-A - Commission on Increasing Diversity in the State Government Workforce.

(a) shall recommend ways in which to increase the number of minority
workers in state service;
(b) shall study how to diversify the workforce in state service during
the replacement of the existing workforce as it ages out and retires;
(c) shall review the diversity hiring practices of other states and
the federal government, including reviewing the Presidential Management
Interim Program model for recruiting and advancing Hispanic and
African-American college graduates, and recommend the best outcome
practices;
(d) shall review and recommend changes to the existing hiring and
promotion practices that will help diversify the workers in state
service at all levels of service;
(e) shall review and recommend the means by which to best provide
information to students and faculty at colleges and universities in the
state on the employment and promotion opportunities in state service;
(f) shall review and recommend recruiting and employment practices
that will bring Hispanics into jobs classified as shortage category
occupations, as well as other occupations;
(g) shall review and recommend any flexibilities that exist in the
state civil service system to bring minorities into jobs classified as
shortage category occupations, as well as other occupations;
(h) shall review and recommend procedures that the department should
take to develop and promote the participation of minority state
employees in career development programs;
(i) may meet within and without the state, shall hold public hearings
and shall have all the powers of a legislative committee pursuant to the
legislative law;
(j) to the maximum extent feasible, shall be entitled to request and
receive, and shall utilize and be provided with such facilities,
resources and data of any court, department, division, board, bureau,
commission or agency of the state as it may reasonably request to
properly carry out its powers and duties pursuant to this section; and
(k) (1) shall, on or before April first, two thousand seven, report to
the governor and the legislature its findings, conclusions and
recommendations,
(2) shall, on or before April first, two thousand eight, report to the
governor and the legislature on the status of and any actions taken on
the recommendations made pursuant to subparagraph one of this paragraph,
and
(3) shall, on or before April first, two thousand nine, report to the
governor and the legislature on the status of and any actions taken on
the recommendations made pursuant to subparagraph one of this paragraph,
and which actions have and have not been taken to provide for diversity
in the state government workforce.
4. The members of the commission on increasing diversity in the state
government workforce shall receive no compensation for their services,
but shall be allowed their actual and necessary expenses incurred in the
performance of their duties pursuant to this section.