Bill Text: NY S05350 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to developing and implementing programs to prevent workplace violence in public schools.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-22 - REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE [S05350 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S05350-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5350
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                     March 22, 2017
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        Introduced by Sen. ALCANTARA -- 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; provided, however, that effective immediate-
    17  ly,  the  addition,  amendment, and/or repeal of any rule, regulation or
    18  guideline necessary for the implementation of this act on its  effective
    19  date  is  authorized  and directed to be made and completed on or before
    20  such date.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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