Terminates the provisions of Executive Order number 47.3
Summary
This concurrent resolution would terminate Executive Order 47.3, a 2025 executive order issued under the Governor’s emergency powers in Executive Law section 29-a. The order imposed special hiring, transfer, promotion, reporting, and background-check restrictions on current and former Department of Corrections and Community Supervision employees who were found to have participated in an illegal and unlawful strike. It also directed state agencies to identify such individuals during hiring and background review processes and barred their appointment to state service in many circumstances.
By ending the executive order, the resolution would remove the temporary statewide restrictions and directives that were layered onto civil service, correction law, county law, municipal home rule law, and criminal procedure law provisions. In practical terms, it would restore the ordinary statutory framework governing hiring and personnel actions for affected former DOCCS employees, and it would end the special reporting and screening requirements imposed on state agencies by the order.
Impact
The bill would not create a new permanent statutory scheme; instead, it would invalidate the temporary emergency modifications and suspensions contained in Executive Order 47.3. That would affect provisions of the Civil Service Law, County Law, Municipal Home Rule Law, Correction Law, and Criminal Procedure Law to the extent they had been altered to restrict the employment mobility of former DOCCS employees involved in the strike. State agencies, local governments, and civil service administrators would no longer be bound by the executive-order-specific hiring prohibitions and related reporting obligations.
Sentiment
The available record shows the bill as a legislative response to a controversial executive action, but there are no committee transcripts or recorded votes included here to show formal support or opposition. Based on the text alone, the resolution appears to reflect concern about the Governor’s use of emergency powers and the breadth of the employment restrictions imposed on a defined group of public employees. Because no debate or vote history is provided, the overall sentiment cannot be measured beyond the fact that the measure is framed as a direct challenge to the executive order.
Contention
The main point of contention is the Governor’s use of section 29-a emergency authority to impose employment consequences on former correction officers who participated in the strike. Supporters of terminating the order would likely argue that the restrictions are overbroad, punitive, or beyond what should be done through emergency executive action, while opponents would likely view the order as a necessary response to unlawful strike activity and a way to protect public safety and agency integrity. The dispute centers on executive power versus legislative oversight, and on whether the state should permanently or temporarily bar these individuals from state and local public employment.
Terminating the emergency determined by the President on August 11, 2025, in the Executive Order titled "Declaring a crime emergency in the District of Columbia".