Bill Text: NY A07936 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Prohibits state contracts with vendors that forbid employees from litigating discrimination or harassment claims except in the case of an emergency arising from certain unforeseen causes.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 14-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2020-01-08 - ordered to third reading cal.297 [A07936 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-A07936-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 7936--A 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY May 28, 2019 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. ARROYO -- read once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the state finance law, in relation to prohibiting state contracts with vendors that forbid employees from litigating discrimi- nation or harassment claims The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 163 of the state finance law is amended by adding a 2 new subdivision 12-a to read as follows: 3 12-a. Certain contract provisions prohibited. a. No agency, depart- 4 ment, division, board, bureau, or commission of the state shall enter 5 into contracts with any vendor that requires an employee or independent 6 contractor performing work under such vendor's contract or subcontract 7 to submit claims arising under title VII of the civil rights act of 8 1964, article fifteen of the executive law, or any tort related to or 9 arising from discrimination, sexual assault or harassment, including: 10 assault, battery, intentional infliction of emotional distress, false 11 imprisonment or negligent hiring, supervision or retention to private 12 arbitration for resolution; provided, however, that this paragraph shall 13 not apply to arbitration that is mandated by a collective bargaining 14 agreement between such vendor and employee and/or independent contrac- 15 tor. 16 b. An agency, department, division, board, bureau, or commission of 17 the state can waive the requirements of paragraph a of this subdivision 18 when necessary to respond to an emergency arising from unforeseen causes 19 pursuant to paragraph b of subdivision ten of this section. The term of 20 the contract shall not be for longer than necessary to respond adequate- 21 ly to the emergency. The agency, department, division, board, bureau, or 22 commission of the state that waives the application of paragraph a of 23 this subdivision shall enter into the procurement records the reasons EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD09726-03-9A. 7936--A 2 1 the waiver was necessary. For the purposes of this paragraph, "emergen- 2 cy" shall have the same meaning as is prescribed in paragraph b of 3 subdivision one of this section. 4 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately; provided, however, that 5 the amendments to section 163 of the state finance law made by section 6 one of this act shall not affect the repeal of such section and shall be 7 deemed repealed therewith.