STATE OF NEW YORK
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1746
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 13, 2023
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Introduced by Sens. RAMOS, GOUNARDES, LIU, MYRIE, PERSAUD, SALAZAR,
SANDERS, SKOUFIS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed
to be committed to the Committee on Labor
AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to developing and implement-
ing programs to prevent workplace violence in public schools
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph a of subdivision 2 of section 27-b of the labor
2 law, as amended by chapter 504 of the laws of 2011, is amended to read
3 as follows:
4 a. "Employer" means: (1) the state; (2) a political subdivision of the
5 state[, provided, however that this subdivision shall not mean any
6 employer as defined in section twenty-eight hundred one-a of the educa-
7 tion law]; (3) a public authority, a public benefit corporation, or any
8 other governmental agency or instrumentality thereof; and (4) an author-
9 ized agency as defined in paragraph (a) of subdivision ten of section
10 three hundred seventy-one of the social services law that accepts chil-
11 dren adjudicated delinquent under article three of the family court act.
12 § 2. The provisions of this act shall not diminish the rights of
13 employees pursuant to any law, rule, regulation or collective bargaining
14 agreement.
15 § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
16 it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amend-
17 ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen-
18 tation of this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and
19 completed on or before such effective date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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