STATE OF NEW YORK
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3929--A
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 23, 2015
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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.
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