Bill Text: NY S05153 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Relates to the definition of employer and the duty of public employers to develop and implement programs to prevent workplace violence.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2024-03-01 - PRINT NUMBER 5153A [S05153 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S05153-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                         5153--A

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    February 23, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sens. PARKER, KENNEDY -- read twice and ordered printed,
          and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Labor  --  recom-
          mitted  to  the  Committee  on Labor in accordance with Senate Rule 6,
          sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill  amended,  ordered  reprinted  as
          amended and recommitted to said committee

        AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to the definition of employer
          and  the duty of public employers to develop and implement programs to
          prevent workplace violence

          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 351 of the laws of 2023, is amended  to  read
     3  as follows:
     4    a. "Employer" means: (1) the state; (2) a political subdivision of the
     5  state;  (3)  a  public  authority,  a public benefit corporation, or any
     6  other governmental agency  or  instrumentality  thereof;  [and]  (4)  an
     7  authorized  agency  as  defined  in  paragraph (a) of subdivision ten of
     8  section three hundred  seventy-one  of  the  social  services  law  that
     9  accepts children adjudicated delinquent under article three of the fami-
    10  ly  court act; and (5) a not-for-profit corporation, as defined in para-
    11  graph (a) of section one hundred two of the  not-for-profit  corporation
    12  law, who received at least fifty percent of their budget through govern-
    13  ment sources.
    14    § 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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