Bill Text: NY S06816 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Defines employees of the state to include statewide elected officials, state officers and employees, legislative employees and legislative members.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS [S06816 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S06816-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          6816

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    October 28, 2019
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  RAMOS  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules

        AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to defining employees  of
          the state

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 6 of section  292  of  the  executive  law,  as
     2  amended  by  chapter  481  of  the  laws  of 2010, is amended to read as
     3  follows:
     4    6. The term "employee" in this article does not include any individual
     5  employed by his or her parents, spouse or  child,  or  in  the  domestic
     6  service  of  any person except as set forth in section two hundred nine-
     7  ty-six-b of this  [title]  article;  provided,  however,  that  for  the
     8  purposes of this article, the following shall be deemed employees of the
     9  state:
    10    (a)  statewide  elected  officials, including the governor, lieutenant
    11  governor, comptroller, and attorney general;
    12    (b) state officers and employees, including:
    13    (i) heads of state departments and their deputies and  assistants  who
    14  serve at the discretion of a statewide elected official; and
    15    (ii)  officers  and employees of statewide elected officials who serve
    16  at the discretion of the statewide elected official;
    17    (c) legislative employees, including officers  and  employees  of  the
    18  legislature; and
    19    (d)  legislative members, including senators and members of the assem-
    20  bly.
    21    § 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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