Bill Text: NY A11308 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Relates to the provision of a waiver before the execution of a confidentiality agreement and requires the waiver to be signed and attached to the confidentiality agreement.
Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 13-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-10-19 - print number 11308a [A11308 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-A11308-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 11308--A IN ASSEMBLY August 15, 2018 ___________ Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Simotas, Pellegrino, Ortiz, Dinowitz, Epstein, Stirpe, Mosley, Gottfried, Abinanti, D'Urso, Wallace, DenDekker, Errigo, Quart) -- read once and referred to the Committee on Judiciary -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit- tee AN ACT to amend the general obligations law, in relation to requiring the provisions of a waiver before the execution of a confidentiality agreement The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision a of section 5-701 of the general obligations 2 law is amended by adding a new paragraph 4 to read as follows: 3 4. Is a confidentiality agreement which has been signed by a party to 4 the contract without he or she first being provided with a waiver 5 explaining the rights he or she would be giving up by signing such 6 agreement. For such waiver to be binding, it shall be signed and 7 attached as an addendum to the confidentiality agreement. Such confi- 8 dentiality agreement shall be void if it prohibits, prevents or other- 9 wise restricts a party from (i) lodging a complaint with the appropriate 10 local, state, or federal agency; (ii) testifying, assisting, or partic- 11 ipating in any manner with an investigation conducted by the appropriate 12 local, state, or federal agency; or (iii) filing or disclosing any facts 13 necessary to receive unemployment insurance, medicaid, or other public 14 benefits such party is entitled to. 15 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD13992-03-8