Bill Text: NY S05680 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires state agencies with over 25 percent of their workforce accruing overtime on a calendar year basis and absent an emergency requiring a temporary increase in overtime hours, to maintain all full time equivalent positions from the previous year.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 3-1)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2018-01-03 - REFERRED TO FINANCE [S05680 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S05680-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5680
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                     April 25, 2017
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  ORTT  --  read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Finance
        AN ACT to require state agencies with over twenty-five percent of  their
          workforce accruing overtime to maintain all full time equivalent posi-
          tions from the previous year
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Notwithstanding any other law to the  contrary,  any  state
     2  agency  with  over  25 percent of their workforce accruing overtime on a
     3  calendar year basis  and  absent  an  emergency  requiring  a  temporary
     4  increase  in  overtime  hours,  shall  maintain all full time equivalent
     5  positions from the previous year. State agencies shall report the  total
     6  number  of agency workers and the total number of workers accruing over-
     7  time from the previous calendar year, to the Director of Budget by Janu-
     8  ary 15 of each year. In addition, any agency exceeding the threshold  as
     9  established  herein  shall  report on the number of full time equivalent
    10  positions that have been filled in accordance with this section and  all
    11  efforts  made to reduce overtime to beneath the threshold stated herein.
    12  Each agency shall further report on the number of temporary workers  and
    13  per  diem workers in positions in said agency and the specific number of
    14  hours worked by temporary  and  per  diem  workers.  Said  report  shall
    15  include  the  length  of time said temporary workers or per diem workers
    16  have been employed in each agency.
    17    § 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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