Bill Text: NY S08601 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Prohibits fingerprinting or mandatory iris and retina scanning of employees; makes related provisions.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Engrossed) 2024-05-29 - referred to labor [S08601 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S08601-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8601

                    IN SENATE

                                    February 21, 2024
                                       ___________

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

        AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to prohibiting mandatory iris
          and retina scanning of employees

          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-a-1 to
     2  read as follows:
     3    § 201-a-1. Mandatory iris and retina scanning of employees prohibited.
     4  Except as otherwise provided by law, no person, as a condition of secur-
     5  ing employment or of continuing employment, shall be required to undergo
     6  iris  or retina scanning. This provision shall not apply to employees of
     7  the state or any municipal subdivisions or departments  thereof,  or  to
     8  the  employees  of legally incorporated hospitals, supported in whole or
     9  in part by public funds or private endowment, or  to  the  employees  of
    10  medical  colleges  affiliated  with  such  hospitals  or to employees of
    11  private proprietary hospitals. The commissioner shall further develop  a
    12  waiver process for other employers or occupations to be exempt from this
    13  provision.
    14    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13244-02-4