Bill Text: NY A02156 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 2156 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Provides that an employer may not take retaliatory action against a person who protests against or discloses any bribery or attempted bribery of a public official.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 27-5)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - referred to labor [A02156 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A02156-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2156
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 17, 2017
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by M. of A. ABINANTI, GALEF, M. G. MILLER, DINOWITZ, STIRPE,
          JENNE, SKOUFIS, MONTESANO, FINCH, GOTTFRIED, PICHARDO, COLTON, JOYNER,
          MOSLEY, ARROYO, BARRON, HOOPER, THIELE, JAFFEE,  GRAF,  RAIA,  CAHILL,
          LAWRENCE, STECK, SEPULVEDA, LIFTON, RIVERA -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M.
          of  A.    ENGLEBRIGHT,  GIGLIO, GLICK, LOPEZ, MAGEE, SIMON, SIMOTAS --
          read once and referred to the Committee on Labor
        AN ACT to amend the labor law, in  relation  to  retaliatory  action  by
          employers
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 740 of the labor law, as added  by
     2  chapter 660 of the laws of 1984, paragraph (a) as amended by chapter 442
     3  of the laws of 2006, is amended to read as follows:
     4    2.  Prohibitions. An employer shall not take any retaliatory personnel
     5  action against an employee because such employee does any of the follow-
     6  ing:
     7    (a) (i) discloses, or threatens to disclose to a supervisor  or  to  a
     8  public  body  an activity, policy or practice of the employer that is in
     9  violation of  law,  rule  or  regulation  which  violation  creates  and
    10  presents a substantial and specific danger to the public health or safe-
    11  ty, or which constitutes health care fraud; or
    12    [(b)]  (ii)  provides  information to, or testifies before, any public
    13  body conducting an investigation,  hearing  or  inquiry  into  any  such
    14  violation of a law, rule or regulation by such employer; or
    15    [(c)]  (iii)  objects to, or refuses to participate in any such activ-
    16  ity, policy or practice in violation of a law, rule or regulation[.]; or
    17    (b) protests or discloses, whether to a supervisor, a  public  entity,
    18  or  to the public in general, any action that constitutes a violation of
    19  section seventy-three, seventy-three-A, seventy-four,  seventy-five,  or
    20  seventy-six  of  the  public  officers  law  or  section 175.20, 175.25,
    21  175.40, 195.20 or article two hundred of the penal law.
    22    § 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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