Bill Text: NY S05451 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to interviews of any officer or employee of the port authority or its subsidiaries.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Vetoed) 2017-12-18 - VETOED MEMO.225 [S05451 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S05451-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5451
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                     March 29, 2017
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  LANZA  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Corporations,  Authorities
          and Commissions
        AN  ACT  to  amend  chapter 154 of the laws of 1921 relating to the port
          authority of New York and New Jersey, in relation to interviews of any
          officer or employee of the port authority or its subsidiaries
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Subparagraph 4 of paragraph e of subdivision 6 of article
     2  IV of section 1 of chapter 154 of the laws of 1921 relating to the  port
     3  authority  of  New  York  and New Jersey, as added by chapter 559 of the
     4  laws of 2015, is amended to read as follows:
     5    (4) interview any officer or employee of the  port  authority  or  its
     6  subsidiaries on any matter related to the performance of such officer or
     7  employee's  official  duties.  [To  the  extent that any portion of this
     8  paragraph is inconsistent with any current  contractual  obligations  of
     9  the  port  authority,  this  paragraph  shall not be applicable to those
    10  obligations until the earliest  expiration  of  those  terms  under  the
    11  contract]  To  the extent that the terms and conditions of employment of
    12  any employee are established by collective negotiations,  any  interview
    13  conducted  pursuant  to  this  paragraph  must be in accordance with any
    14  applicable provisions of  the  current,  or  most  recent,  if  expired,
    15  collective  negotiations  agreement covering the terms and conditions of
    16  employment of the employee;
    17    § 2. This act shall take effect upon the enactment  into  law  by  the
    18  state  of New Jersey of legislation having an identical effect with this
    19  act, and upon the enactment into law by  the  state  of  New  Jersey  of
    20  legislation  having  an identical effect with chapter 559 of the laws of
    21  2015 pursuant to section 6 of such chapter, but  if  the  state  of  New
    22  Jersey  shall have already enacted such legislation, then this act shall
    23  take effect immediately. The chairperson of  the  port  authority  shall
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  notify  the legislative bill drafting commission upon the enactment into
     2  law of such legislation by both such states in order that the commission
     3  may maintain an accurate and timely effective data base of the  official
     4  text  of  the  laws of the state of New York in furtherance of effecting
     5  the provisions of section 44 of the legislative law and section 70-b  of
     6  the public officers law.