Bill Text: NY A00015 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Voids as contrary to public policy provision in contracts for employment in law enforcement agencies which permit an employee to refuse to cooperate with agency officials investigating an incident for a period of time following such incident; applies prospectively.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to labor [A00015 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A00015-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           15
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                       (Prefiled)
                                     January 9, 2019
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A. PERRY -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. COOK,
          GLICK, ORTIZ, RIVERA -- read once and referred  to  the  Committee  on
          Labor
        AN  ACT  to amend the labor law, in relation to contracts for employment
          in law enforcement agencies
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  The labor law is amended by adding a new section 211-b to
     2  read as follows:
     3    § 211-b.  Contracts;  law  enforcement  agencies;  certain  provisions
     4  prohibited.  No contract, covenant, agreement or understanding in, or in
     5  connection with or collateral to an agreement or contract for employment
     6  in any law enforcement agency in this state shall contain any  provision
     7  or language which permits any employee of such agency who is involved in
     8  an  incident,  which  is  or may become the subject of a departmental or
     9  agency investigation or disciplinary process,  to  refuse  to  cooperate
    10  with  or speak to agency or department officials for a designated period
    11  of time following such incident. Any such language  or  provision  which
    12  purports to create such a period of time during which an employee is not
    13  required  to report an incident or during which such employee may not be
    14  subject to questioning by agency  officials  shall  be  deemed  void  as
    15  against public policy.
    16    §  2.  This  act  shall take effect immediately and shall apply to all
    17  contracts entered into, renewed, modified or amended on  or  after  such
    18  effective date.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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