Bill Text: NY A00775 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to the definition of employer and the duty of public employers to develop and implement programs to prevent workplace violence.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-10 - enacting clause stricken [A00775 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A00775-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           775

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 11, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. JOYNER -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Labor

        AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to the definition of employer
          and  the duty of public employers to develop and implement programs to
          prevent workplace violence

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

     1    Section  1.  Paragraph a of subdivision 2 of section 27-b of the labor
     2  law, as amended by chapter 504 of the laws of 2011, is amended  to  read
     3  as follows:
     4    a. "Employer" means: (1) the state; (2) a political subdivision of the
     5  state,  provided,  however  that  this  subdivision  shall  not mean any
     6  employer as defined in section twenty-eight hundred one-a of the  educa-
     7  tion  law;  (3) a public authority, a public benefit corporation, or any
     8  other governmental agency  or  instrumentality  thereof;  [and]  (4)  an
     9  authorized  agency  as  defined  in  paragraph (a) of subdivision ten of
    10  section three hundred  seventy-one  of  the  social  services  law  that
    11  accepts children adjudicated delinquent under article three of the fami-
    12  ly  court act; and (5) a not-for-profit corporation, as defined in para-
    13  graph (a) of section one hundred two of the  not-for-profit  corporation
    14  law, who received at least fifty percent of their budget through govern-
    15  ment sources.
    16    § 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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