Bill Text: NY A09963 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Provides that police officers and firefighters employed by bi-state authorities are covered under health and safety standards for public employees.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: (Passed) 2012-08-17 - signed chap.441 [A09963 Detail]
Download: New_York-2011-A09963-Amended.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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9963--A
I N A S S E M B L Y
April 27, 2012
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Introduced by M. of A. ABBATE -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. BRENNAN,
GOLDFEDER -- 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 labor law, in relation to providing that police
officers and firefighters employed by bi-state authorities are covered
under health and safety standards for public employees
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
1 Section 1. Paragraphs a and d of subdivision 1 of section 27-a of the
2 labor law, as added by chapter 729 of the laws of 1980, are amended to
3 read as follows:
4 a. "Employer" means the state, any political subdivision of the state,
5 a public authority, A BI-STATE AUTHORITY UTILIZING ITS OWN POLICE OFFI-
6 CERS OR FIREFIGHTERS or any other governmental agency or instrumentality
7 thereof.
8 d. "Public employee" means any employee of the state, any political
9 subdivision of the state, a public authority, A BI-STATE AUTHORITY
10 UTILIZING ITS OWN POLICE OFFICERS OR FIREFIGHTERS or any other govern-
11 mental agency or instrumentality.
12 S 2. This act shall take effect upon the enactment into law by the
13 state of New Jersey of legislation having an identical effect with this
14 act, but if the state of New Jersey shall have already enacted such
15 legislation, this act shall take effect immediately; provided that the
16 state of New Jersey shall notify the legislative bill drafting commis-
17 sion upon the occurrence of the enactment of the legislation provided
18 for in section one of this act in order that the commission may maintain
19 an accurate and timely effective data base of the official text of the
20 laws of the state of New York in furtherance of effectuating the
21 provisions of section 44 of the legislative law and section 70-b of the
22 public officers law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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