STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6157
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 28, 2019
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  TITUS, PEOPLES-STOKES, COLTON, L. ROSENTHAL,
          COOK, LIFTON, SIMON, BLAKE, JAFFEE, PICHARDO, M. G. MILLER, GOTTFRIED,
          PERRY, BARRON, HEVESI, LUPARDO, DiPIETRO, RAIA --  Multi-Sponsored  by
          --  M. of A.  DINOWITZ, GALEF, McDONOUGH, RIVERA, SOLAGES -- read once
          and referred to the Committee on Labor
        AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to developing and  implement-
          ing programs to prevent workplace violence in public schools
          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 author-
     9  ized  agency  as  defined in paragraph (a) of subdivision ten of section
    10  three hundred seventy-one of the social services law that accepts  chil-
    11  dren adjudicated delinquent under article three of the family court act.
    12    §  2.  The  provisions  of  this  act shall not diminish the rights of
    13  employees pursuant to any law, rule, regulation or collective bargaining
    14  agreement.
    15    § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
    16  it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition,  amend-
    17  ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen-
    18  tation  of  this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and
    19  completed on or before such effective date.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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