Bill Text: NY S03929 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended


Bill Title: Enacts the "occupational safety and health funding act"; relates to the dedicated occupational safety and health training and education and occupational health clinic programs fund.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-03-03 - PRINT NUMBER 3929A [S03929 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S03929-Amended.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                         3929--A
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    February 23, 2015
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  Sen.  SAVINO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Finance -- recommitted  to
          the  Committee  on Finance in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 --
          committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as  amended  and
          recommitted to said committee
        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  state  finance law, in relation to enacting the
          "occupational safety and health funding act"
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  This  act shall be known and may be cited as the "occupa-
     2  tional safety and health funding act".
     3    § 2. Section 97-c of the state finance law, as added by chapter 886 of
     4  the laws of 1985, subdivisions 3 and 4 as amended by chapter 309 of  the
     5  laws of 1996, is amended to read as follows:
     6    §  97-c.  [Training  and  education program on occupational safety and
     7  health fund] Dedicated  occupational  safety  and  health  training  and
     8  education  and  occupational  health  clinic  programs fund. 1. There is
     9  hereby established in the custody of the state comptroller the [training
    10  and education program on occupational safety and health fund]  dedicated
    11  occupational  safety  and health training and education and occupational
    12  health clinic programs fund.
    13    2. Such fund shall consist of moneys collected  from  special  compen-
    14  sation  assessments  collected pursuant to the provisions of section one
    15  hundred fifty-one of the workers'  compensation  law  for  the  training
    16  program  on  occupational  safety and health and the occupational health
    17  clinic network.
    18    3. Moneys of the fund shall be available to the New York state occupa-
    19  tional safety and health hazard abatement board for purposes of carrying
    20  out the provisions of article twenty-nine of the labor law  and  to  the
    21  department of labor for worker protection activities under its jurisdic-
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD08387-02-6
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