Bill Text: NY A06072 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended


Bill Title: Allows the implementation of body cameras on police officers notwithstanding binding arbitration.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - referred to governmental employees [A06072 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A06072-Amended.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                         6072--A

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      March 9, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. RAMOS -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Governmental  Employees  --  committee  discharged,  bill  amended,
          ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  civil  service law, in relation to allowing the
          implementation of body  cameras  on  police  officers  notwithstanding
          binding arbitration

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

     1    Section 1. Section 204-a of the civil service law is amended by adding
     2  a new subdivision 4 to read as follows:
     3    4. The terms of any agreement or interest  arbitration  award  between
     4  any  public  employer  and any public employee organization representing
     5  police officers authorizing an increase in the rate of pay  or  expanded
     6  duty  pay  in  recognition  of  the  additional and continued duties and
     7  responsibilities performed by police officers in connection  with  body-
     8  worn  cameras shall be invalid and no such agreement shall include bind-
     9  ing arbitration for the purposes of authorizing such a pay  increase  or
    10  expanded duty pay.
    11    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD09432-03-1
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