Bill Text: NY A04733 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Prohibits state entities from publishing or broadcasting advertisements regarding contract negotiations while such negotiations are still in progress without limiting the ability of such entity to publish advertisements regarding the possibility of a pending strike.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to governmental operations [A04733 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A04733-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4733
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 5, 2019
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  DenDEKKER  --  read once and referred to the
          Committee on Governmental Operations
        AN ACT to amend the executive law,  in  relation  to  prohibiting  state
          entities  from publishing or broadcasting certain advertisements while
          negotiations are still in progress
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1. The executive law is amended by adding a new section 163-b
     2  to read as follows:
     3    § 163-b. Contract negotiation advertising. 1. No agency or state enti-
     4  ty shall publish or broadcast an advertisement in  any  media  regarding
     5  contract  negotiations which are still in progress at the time of publi-
     6  cation or broadcast; provided, however, that  nothing  in  this  section
     7  shall  be construed to prohibit a state entity from publishing an adver-
     8  tisement providing the public with information about the possibility  of
     9  a  pending strike and advising the public on how such strike may disrupt
    10  services.
    11    2. For purposes of this section, the following terms  shall  have  the
    12  following meanings:
    13    (a)  "advertisement"  means  the  publications,  dissemination, circu-
    14  lation, or placing before the public, or causing directly or  indirectly
    15  to  be  made,  published, disseminated, or placed before the public, any
    16  announcement or statement in a newspaper, magazine,  or  other  publica-
    17  tion,  or  in  the  form  of a book, notice, circular, pamphlet, letter,
    18  hand-bill, poster, bill, sign, placard, card, label, tag, or by radio or
    19  television or any other means.
    20    (b) "state entity" shall  mean  any  state  board,  bureau,  division,
    21  committee,  commission,  council,  department,  public authority, public
    22  benefit corporation, office or other governmental  entity  performing  a
    23  governmental or proprietary function for the state of New York.
    24    § 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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