Bill Text: NY S05770 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Establishes the crime of illegal employee retaliation which makes it a class A misdemeanor for a person to share confidential information within an employee's personnel file with a third party with the intent to harass, intimidate or embarrass such employee and such employee has not consented to the sharing of such information.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 13-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - REFERRED TO CODES [S05770 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S05770-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5770

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                     March 18, 2021
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        Introduced  by Sens. JORDAN, BOYLE, HELMING, ORTT, RITCHIE, SERINO, WEIK
          -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to
          the Committee on Codes

        AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to establishing the crime  of
          illegal employee retaliation

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

     1    Section 1. The penal law is amended by adding a new section 240.24  to
     2  read as follows:
     3  § 240.24 Illegal employee retaliation.
     4    1.  A person is guilty of illegal employee retaliation when he or she,
     5  with intent to harass,  intimidate  or  embarrass  an  employee,  shares
     6  confidential  information  within  such employee's personnel file with a
     7  third party and such employee has not  affirmatively  consented  to  the
     8  sharing of the confidential information.
     9    2. For the purposes of this section, it shall not be unlawful to share
    10  confidential information within an employee's personnel file if it is to
    11  comply with a law enforcement investigation or court proceeding.
    12    Illegal employee retaliation is a class A misdemeanor.
    13    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD10488-02-1