Bill Text: NY S06828 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 6828 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Includes the state and all public employers as employers subject to the provisions of the human rights law; includes executive, legislative and judicial employers.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 11-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2020-07-21 - referred to governmental operations [S06828 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S06828-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          6828

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    November 1, 2019
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sens.  GOUNARDES, BIAGGI, KRUEGER, LIU -- 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 the definition of
          "employer" for purposes of the human rights law

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

     1    Section  1.  Subdivision  5  of  section  292 of the executive law, as
     2  amended by chapter 161 of the laws  of  2019,  is  amended  to  read  as
     3  follows:
     4    5.  The  term "employer" shall include all employers within the state.
     5  For the purposes of this article, the state of New York shall be consid-
     6  ered an employer of any employee or official of the New York state exec-
     7  utive, legislature, or judiciary, including persons serving in any judi-
     8  cial capacity, and persons serving on the staff of any elected  official
     9  in New York state.
    10    §  2.  This  act  shall  take  effect on the same date and in the same
    11  manner as chapter 161 of the  laws  of  2019,  takes  effect;  provided,
    12  however,  if  this  act shall have become a law after such date it shall
    13  take effect immediately and shall be deemed to have been in  full  force
    14  and effect on and after the effective date of chapter 161 of the laws of
    15  2019.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13921-03-9