Bill Text: NY S06874 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 6874 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Relates to prohibiting employers from microchipping employees as a condition of securing or continuing employment.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - REFERRED TO LABOR [S06874 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S06874-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6874
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                   September 18, 2017
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  Sen.  AVELLA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
        AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to prohibiting employers from
          requiring an employee to be implanted with a microchip
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  The labor law is amended by adding a new section 201-g to
     2  read as follows:
     3    § 201-g. Microchipping of employees prohibited. 1. It shall be  unlaw-
     4  ful  for  any employer to require a person to be implanted with personal
     5  identification microchip  technology  as  a  condition  of  securing  or
     6  continuing employment.
     7    2.  The term "personal identification microchip technology" as used in
     8  this section shall mean a subcutaneous or surgically implanted microchip
     9  technology device or product that contains or is designed to  contain  a
    10  unique identification number and personal information that can be nonin-
    11  vasively retrieved or transmitted with an external scanning device.
    12    3. Any employer who violates this section shall be guilty of a class A
    13  misdemeanor.
    14    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13356-01-7