Bill Text: NY A07415 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Assembly Bill 7415 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Requires the department of civil service to create and distribute an informational pamphlet regarding union membership of civil service employees.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to governmental employees [A07415 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A07415-Amended.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                         7415--A

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                       May 1, 2019
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. REYES -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Governmental  Employees  --  committee  discharged,  bill  amended,
          ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  civil service law, in relation to requiring the
          department of civil  service  to  create  and  distribute  a  pamphlet
          regarding union membership of civil service employees

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

     1    Section 1. The civil service law is amended by adding  a  new  section
     2  154 to read as follows:
     3    §  154.  Union  membership  guidance. 1. The department shall create a
     4  pamphlet that sets forth in simple and understandable terms the  follow-
     5  ing minimum requirements:
     6    (a) The definition of a public employer;
     7    (b) An explanation that public-sector workers have the right to union-
     8  ize pursuant to state and local law;
     9    (c) The prohibition of public employers interfering with public-sector
    10  employees right to unionize; and
    11    (d)  The loss of benefits to public employees who choose not to join a
    12  union pursuant to subdivision two of section two hundred-nine-a of  this
    13  chapter.
    14    2.  The  department  shall  distribute  to  all  current civil service
    15  employees the pamphlet required pursuant to this section. Within  thirty
    16  days  of  an  employee  first  being  employed  or reemployed in a civil
    17  service position, the department shall distribute the pamphlet  required
    18  pursuant to this section to such employee.
    19    3.  The  department  shall  make available on its website the pamphlet
    20  required pursuant to this section.
    21    § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
    22  have  become  a  law.    Effective  immediately, the addition, amendment
    23  and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation
    24  of this act on  its  effective  date  are  authorized  to  be  made  and
    25  completed on or before such effective date.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11301-02-9