Bill Text: NY S02736 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to eliminating a disincentive for whistleblowers.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-0)

Status: (Passed) 2019-12-20 - signed chap.684 [S02736 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S02736-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2736
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    January 29, 2019
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        Introduced  by  Sen. 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 eliminating a disincentive
          for whistleblowers
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1. Subdivision 7 of section 740 of the labor law, as added by
     2  chapter 660 of the laws of 1984, is amended to read as follows:
     3    7. Existing rights. Nothing in this section shall be deemed to  dimin-
     4  ish  the rights, privileges, or remedies of any employee under any other
     5  law or regulation  or  under  any  collective  bargaining  agreement  or
     6  employment  contract[;  except  that  the  institution  of  an action in
     7  accordance with this section shall be deemed a waiver of the rights  and
     8  remedies  available  under  any  other  contract,  collective bargaining
     9  agreement, law, rule or regulation or under the common law].
    10    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03379-01-9