Bill Text: NY A08825 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Preempts local laws from requiring minimum work requirements for volunteer security guards in their communities.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-18 - referred to economic development [A08825 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A08825-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          8825

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 18, 2024
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. E. BROWN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Economic Development

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  general business law, in relation to preempting
          local laws from requiring minimum hours  worked  for  security  guards
          acting on a volunteer basis

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Section 89-r of the general business  law,  as  amended  by
     2  chapter 634 of the laws of 1994, is amended to read as follows:
     3    §  89-r.  Preemption.  The  provisions  of  this  article shall govern
     4  notwithstanding any other law to the contrary and further, no local  law
     5  shall  be  enacted which shall require any fee or license for the licen-
     6  sure [of] or registration [or] of security guards. Further no local  law
     7  shall  be  enacted  which  requires  minimum  hour work requirements for
     8  volunteer security guards.
     9    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.







         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13974-01-4