Bill Text: NY S06464 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Enacts the "state workforce injury reduction act"; requires state agencies to submit a written action plan for reducing occurrences of injuries in the coming year to the governor and the legislature.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Vetoed) 2018-12-21 - VETOED MEMO.315 [S06464 Detail]

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6464
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                      May 23, 2017
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        Introduced  by  Sen. ADDABBO -- 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  enacting  the
          "state workforce injury reduction 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  "state
     2  workforce injury reduction act".
     3    §  2.  Section  7  of the civil service law is amended by adding a new
     4  subdivision 7 to read as follows:
     5    7. Each state agency referenced in the annual  report  issued  by  the
     6  president  pursuant  to subdivision six of this section shall, beginning
     7  with the report issued in two thousand eighteen  and  every  other  year
     8  thereafter,  within one hundred eighty days after receipt of such report
     9  submit to the president a written action plan for  reducing  occurrences
    10  of  such  injuries  in the coming year. Upon receipt of such action plan
    11  but no later than two hundred forty days after issuing the report pursu-
    12  ant to subdivision six of this section, the  president  shall  issue  an
    13  addendum to the report with a summary of all of the action plans submit-
    14  ted  by each affected state agency to the governor, the temporary presi-
    15  dent of the senate and the speaker of the assembly. In  any  case  where
    16  one  or  multiple  collective  bargaining  units  are  present within an
    17  affected state agency, the state agency  shall  include  the  collective
    18  bargaining  representative in any discussions on reports issued pursuant
    19  to this subdivision. Nothing in this subdivision shall be  construed  to
    20  conflict  with  a  state  agency's  responsibility  to  bargain with the
    21  collective bargaining representative pursuant  to  article  fourteen  of
    22  this chapter.
    23    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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