Bill Text: NY S00730 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 730 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Relates to use of accrued sick time, compensation time or vacation time.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO CIVIL SERVICE AND PENSIONS [S00730 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S00730-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           730
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                       (Prefiled)
                                     January 9, 2019
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  Sens.  MONTGOMERY,  COMRIE,  PERSAUD  --  read twice and
          ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee  on
          Civil Service and Pensions
        AN  ACT  to  amend  the civil service law, in relation to use of accrued
          sick time, compensation time or vacation time
          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  159-d to read as follows:
     3    § 159-d. Payment in lieu of workers' compensation payments.  1.  Every
     4  public officer, employee  of  this  state,  county,  community  college,
     5  public  authority,  public  benefit  corporation,  board  of cooperative
     6  educational services (BOCES), vocational education and extension  board,
     7  school  district  enumerated  in  section  one  of  chapter five hundred
     8  sixty-six of the laws of  nineteen  hundred  sixty-seven,  municipality,
     9  school  district  or  participating  employer  in the New York state and
    10  local employees' retirement system or a participating  employer  in  the
    11  New  York  state  teachers'  retirement  system  who has suffered a work
    12  related injury shall be entitled to use accrued sick time,  compensation
    13  time or vacation time where any such employee is injured but has not yet
    14  become covered under the provisions of the workers' compensation law.
    15    2.  The  provisions  of  this section shall not apply to any employees
    16  subject to a collective bargaining agreement as of the effective date of
    17  this section. An  employee  organization  may,  pursuant  to  collective
    18  bargaining,  opt in to the provisions of this section on behalf of those
    19  public employees it is either  certified  or  recognized  to  represent,
    20  within  the meaning of article fourteen of this chapter, or may alterna-
    21  tively bargain for benefits greater or less than those provided  for  by
    22  this  section.  An  employee  organization  that  has  opted  in  to the
    23  provisions of this section may, pursuant to collective  bargaining,  opt
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  out  of  it as is mutually agreed upon between the employee organization
     2  and any public employer.
     3    3.  Nothing  set  forth  in this section shall be construed to impede,
     4  infringe or diminish the rights and benefits that  accrue  to  employees
     5  and  employers  through  collective  bargaining agreements, or otherwise
     6  diminish the integrity of the collective bargaining relationship.
     7    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.