Bill Text: NY A07909 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Grants employees of employers, which provide services pursuant to the mental hygiene law, protection from retaliatory actions for the reporting of certain violations.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Passed) 2014-12-17 - signed chap.492 [A07909 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-A07909-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         7909
                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                     June 7, 2013
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       Introduced  by M. of A. GUNTHER -- read once and referred to the Commit-
         tee on Mental Health
       AN ACT to amend  the  mental  hygiene  law,  in  relation  to  providing
         protections  to mental hygiene employees from retaliatory actions from
         employers
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  The mental hygiene law is amended by adding a new section
    2  13.41 to read as follows:
    3  S 13.41 RETALIATORY PERSONNEL ACTIONS.
    4    EMPLOYEES OF FACILITIES, PROGRAMS AND  PROVIDERS  OPERATED,  LICENSED,
    5  CERTIFIED, AUTHORIZED OR FUNDED BY THE OFFICE SHALL HAVE PROTECTION FROM
    6  RETALIATORY  ACTION  FROM  EMPLOYERS  AS  PROVIDED FOR IN SECTIONS SEVEN
    7  HUNDRED FORTY AND SEVEN HUNDRED FORTY-ONE OF THE LABOR LAW.
    8    S 2. The mental hygiene law is amended by adding a new section 7.45 to
    9  read as follows:
   10  S 7.45 RETALIATORY PERSONNEL ACTIONS.
   11    EMPLOYEES OF FACILITIES, PROGRAMS AND  PROVIDERS  OPERATED,  LICENSED,
   12  CERTIFIED, AUTHORIZED OR FUNDED BY THE OFFICE SHALL HAVE PROTECTION FROM
   13  RETALIATORY  ACTION  FROM  EMPLOYERS  AS  PROVIDED FOR IN SECTIONS SEVEN
   14  HUNDRED FORTY AND SEVEN HUNDRED FORTY-ONE OF THE LABOR LAW.
   15    S 3. The mental hygiene law is amended by adding a new  section  19.43
   16  to read as follows:
   17  S 19.43 RETALIATORY PERSONNEL ACTIONS.
   18    EMPLOYEES  OF  FACILITIES,  PROGRAMS AND PROVIDERS OPERATED, LICENSED,
   19  CERTIFIED, AUTHORIZED OR FUNDED BY THE OFFICE SHALL HAVE PROTECTION FROM
   20  RETALIATORY ACTION FROM EMPLOYERS AS  PROVIDED  FOR  IN  SECTIONS  SEVEN
   21  HUNDRED FORTY AND SEVEN HUNDRED FORTY-ONE OF THE LABOR LAW.
   22    S 4. This act shall take effect immediately.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD11428-01-3