Bill Text: NY A07396 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Requires state agencies with over 25 percent of their workforce accruing overtime on a calendar year basis and absent an emergency requiring a temporary increase in overtime hours, to maintain all full time equivalent positions from the previous year.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - referred to ways and means [A07396 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A07396-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         7396--A
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                     April 25, 2017
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        Introduced  by M. of A. GUNTHER -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Labor -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered  reprinted
          as amended and recommitted to said committee
        AN  ACT to require state agencies with over twenty-five percent of their
          workforce accruing overtime to maintain all full time equivalent posi-
          tions from the previous year
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Notwithstanding  any other law to the contrary, any state
     2  agency with over 25 percent of their workforce accruing  overtime  on  a
     3  calendar  year  basis  and  absent  an  emergency  requiring a temporary
     4  increase in overtime hours, shall  maintain  all  full  time  equivalent
     5  positions  from the previous year. State agencies shall report the total
     6  number of agency workers and the total number of workers accruing  over-
     7  time from the previous calendar year, to the Director of Budget by Janu-
     8  ary  15 of each year. In addition, any agency exceeding the threshold as
     9  established herein shall report on the number of  full  time  equivalent
    10  positions  that have been filled in accordance with this section and all
    11  efforts made to reduce overtime to beneath the threshold stated  herein.
    12  Each  agency shall further report on the number of temporary workers and
    13  per diem workers in positions in said agency and the specific number  of
    14  hours  worked  by  temporary  and  per  diem  workers. Said report shall
    15  include the length of time said temporary workers or  per  diem  workers
    16  have been employed in each agency.
    17    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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