City of Baltimore - File #: 10-0622

• File #: 10-0622
• Version: 0
• Name: Hiring Preferences for Persons with Disabilities
• Type: Ordinance
• Status: Enacted
• File created: 11/22/2010
• In control: City Council
• Final action: 3/11/2011
• Enactment #: 11-424
• Title: Hiring Preferences for Persons with Disabilities FOR the purpose of requiring the Civil Service Commission to establish standards for establishing and maintaining a preference for the appointment of qualified persons with a disability; specifying the required contents and limitation of these standards; and generally relating to the hiring of persons with disabilities.
• Sponsors: Robert Curran, Nicholas C. D'Adamo, President Young, Warren Branch, Belinda Conaway, Rochelle Spector, Helen L. Holton, Mary Pat Clarke, Agnes Welch, Edward Reisinger, James B. Kraft, Bill Henry, Sharon Green Middleton
• Indexes: Disability, Hiring

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
3/11/2011	0	Mayor	Signed by Mayor
3/7/2011	0	City Council	Approved and Sent to the Mayor
2/28/2011	0	City Council	Advanced to 3rd Rdr., Adopted Comm. Report
2/28/2011	0	Labor Subcommittee	Recommended Favorably with Amendment
2/7/2011	0	Labor Subcommittee	Scheduled for a Public Hearing
11/25/2010	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
11/25/2010	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
11/25/2010	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
11/25/2010	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
11/25/2010	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
11/22/2010	0	City Council	Introduced
11/22/2010	0	City Council	Assigned

EXPLANATION: CAPITALS indicate matter added to existing law.
[Brackets] indicate matter deleted from existing law.

* WARNING: THIS IS AN UNOFFICIAL, INTRODUCTORY COPY OF THE BILL.
THE OFFICIAL COPY CONSIDERED BY THE CITY COUNCIL IS THE FIRST READER COPY.
INTRODUCTORY*

CITY OF BALTIMORE
COUNCIL BILL

Introduced by: Councilmember Curran

A BILL ENTITLED

AN ORDINANCE concerning
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Hiring Preferences for Persons with Disabilities

FOR the purpose of requiring the Civil Service Commission to establish standards for establishing and maintaining a preference for the appointment of qualified persons with a disability; specifying the required contents and limitation of these standards; and generally relating to the hiring of persons with disabilities.
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BY adding
Article 1 - Mayor, City Council, and Municipal Agencies
Section(s) 7-8
Baltimore City Code
(Edition 2000)

SECTION 1. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL OF BALTIMORE, That the Laws of Baltimore City read as follows:

Baltimore City Code

Article 1. Mayor, City Council, and Municipal Agencies

Subtitle 7. City Officers and Employees

§ 7-8. HIRING PREFERENCE FOR PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES.

(A) FINDINGS.

(1) PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES ARE A LARGELY UNTAPPED RESOURCE FOR OUTSTANDING CANDIDATES FOR CITY EMPLOYMENT.

(2) PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES SUFFER FROM A HIGH UNEMPLOYMENT AND UNDEREMPLOYMENT RATE IN THE CITY DUE IN PART TO UNFOUNDED MYTHS, FEARS, AND STEREOTYPES THAT ARE ASSOCIATED WITH MANY DISABILITIES.


(3) A HIRING PREFERENCE FOR PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES IS NECESSARY TO REMEDY PAST DISCRIMINATION RESULTING FROM THESE UNFOUNDED MYTHS, FEARS, AND STEREOTYPES...