Bill Text: NY S08164 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to the removal of residency as a condition precedent to employment for any political subdivision or municipal corporation of the state or any of its agencies.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-06-24 - REFERRED TO RULES [S08164 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S08164-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8164
                    IN SENATE
                                      June 24, 2016
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        Introduced  by Sen. CARLUCCI -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
        AN ACT to amend the public officers law in relation to  the  removal  of
          residency  as  a  condition  precedent to employment for any political
          subdivision or municipal corporation of the state or any of its  agen-
          cies
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Legislative finding and declaration. The legislature hereby
     2  finds and declares that there is a substantial  state  interest  in  the
     3  fair  and  equitable  treatment of public employees throughout the state
     4  who are permitted to reside in localities outside the political subdivi-
     5  sion or municipal corporation of the state for which they  work.    That
     6  substantial  state  interest  would be furthered by establishing that no
     7  employee who resides in a permitted locality be subject to any  levy  or
     8  payment by choosing to reside in such permitted locality. Therefore, the
     9  legislature  declares  the  necessity  for  the enactment of this act to
    10  establish that no public employee who becomes a nonresident of  a  poli-
    11  tical  subdivision or municipal corporation of the state for which he or
    12  she works shall be obligated to make a payment because he or she becomes
    13  a nonresident by residing in a locality  permitted  by  state  or  other
    14  applicable law.
    15    §  2.  Section 3 of the public officers law is amended by adding a new
    16  subdivision 65 to read as follows:
    17    65. Notwithstanding the provisions of this section or of any  general,
    18  special  or  local  law,  charter,  code, ordinance, resolution, rule or
    19  regulation to the contrary, commencing on January first of the  calendar
    20  year  after  the  effective date of this subdivision, no employee of any
    21  political subdivision or municipal corporation of the state  or  any  of
    22  its  agencies  that resides in a county permitted by this section or any
    23  other applicable law shall be obligated to make any payment  or  satisfy
    24  any  levy  pursuant to a condition of employment, or agreement that such
    25  employee may have signed, that such employee shall  pay  any  amount  if
    26  such  employee  becomes  a  nonresident  of the political subdivision or
    27  municipal corporation of the state.
    28    § 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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