Bill Text: NY A07910 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Enacts the hotel worker protection act requiring hotel and motel employers to provide personal devices to hotel and motel room attendants and room service workers for their protection.

Sponsorship: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 13-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-01-04 - referred to labor [A07910 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-A07910-Amended.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                        7910--B
                              2011-2012 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                     May 23, 2011
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       Introduced  by M. of A. LANCMAN, WEPRIN, MENG, M. MILLER, SPANO, STEVEN-
         SON, MOYA, P. RIVERA -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. BRENNAN,  COOK,
         CRESPO,  GOTTFRIED -- read once and referred to the Committee on Labor
         -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered  reprinted  as  amended
         and  recommitted to said committee -- again reported from said commit-
         tee with amendments, ordered reprinted as amended and  recommitted  to
         said committee
       AN  ACT  to  amend the labor law, in relation to providing protection to
         hotel and motel employees
         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 "hotel
    2  worker protection act".
    3    S 2. The labor law is amended by adding a new section 202-l to read as
    4  follows:
    5    S 202-L.  PROTECTION  OF  HOTEL  AND  MOTEL  EMPLOYEES  FROM  ASSAULT.
    6  NOTWITHSTANDING  ANY  OTHER PROVISION OF LAW, HOTELS AND MOTELS, AS SUCH
    7  TERMS ARE DEFINED BY SUBDIVISION ONE OF SECTION THIRTEEN  HUNDRED  NINE-
    8  TY-NINE-J  OF  THE  PUBLIC HEALTH LAW, SHALL PROVIDE EACH HOTEL OR MOTEL
    9  ROOM ATTENDANT AND ROOM SERVICE WORKER WITH A PERSONAL ELECTRONIC DEVICE
   10  WHICH WILL HAVE THE SOLE  AND  EXCLUSIVE  FUNCTION  OF  NOTIFYING  HOTEL
   11  MANAGEMENT OF AN EMERGENCY AT THE PUSH OF A SINGLE BUTTON.
   12    S 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
   13  it shall have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD11728-06-1