Bill Text: NY A04933 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Enacts the "state workforce injury reduction act"; requires state agencies to submit a written action plan for reducing occurrences of injuries in the coming year to the governor and the legislature.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2018-06-20 - substituted by s6464a [A04933 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-A04933-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 4933--B 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY February 6, 2017 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. WEPRIN, COLTON, SEPULVEDA, SKOUFIS -- Multi-Spon- sored by -- M. of A. HYNDMAN -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee on Governmental Employees -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee -- ordered to a third reading -- recommitted to the Committee on Govern- mental Employees in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- commit- tee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recom- mitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the civil service law, in relation to enacting the "state workforce injury reduction act" The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "state 2 workforce injury reduction act". 3 § 2. Section 7 of the civil service law is amended by adding a new 4 subdivision 8 to read as follows: 5 8. Each state agency referenced in the annual report issued by the 6 president pursuant to subdivision six of this section shall, beginning 7 with the report issued in two thousand nineteen and every other year 8 thereafter, within one hundred eighty days after receipt of such report 9 submit to the president a written action plan for reducing occurrences 10 of such injuries in the coming year. Upon receipt of such action plan 11 but no later than two hundred forty days after issuing the report pursu- 12 ant to subdivision six of this section, the president shall issue an 13 addendum to the report with a summary of all of the action plans submit- 14 ted by each affected state agency to the governor, the temporary presi- 15 dent of the senate and the speaker of the assembly. In any case where 16 one or multiple collective bargaining units are present within an 17 affected state agency, the state agency shall include the collective 18 bargaining representative in any discussions on reports issued pursuant 19 to this subdivision. Nothing in this subdivision shall be construed to EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD09377-05-8A. 4933--B 2 1 conflict with a state agency's responsibility to bargain with the 2 collective bargaining representative pursuant to article fourteen of 3 this chapter. 4 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
