Bill Text: NY A09963 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 9963 (Prior Session Legislation)

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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]

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         9963
                                 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
       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 immediately.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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