STATE OF NEW YORK
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7721
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
May 26, 2015
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Introduced by M. of A. PEOPLES-STOKES -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Labor
AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to the definition of employer
with respect to the duty of public employers to develop and implement
programs to prevent workplace violence
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraphs a and b of subdivision 2 of section 27-b of the
2 labor law, paragraph a as amended by chapter 504 of the laws of 2011 and
3 paragraph b as added by chapter 82 of the laws of 2006, are amended to
4 read as follows:
5 a. "Employer" means: (1) the state; (2) a political subdivision of the
6 state, provided, however that this subdivision shall not mean any
7 employer as defined in section twenty-eight hundred one-a of the educa-
8 tion law; (3) a public authority, a public benefit corporation, or any
9 other governmental agency or instrumentality thereof; [and] (4) an
10 authorized agency as defined in paragraph (a) of subdivision ten of
11 section three hundred seventy-one of the social services law that
12 accepts children adjudicated delinquent under article three of the fami-
13 ly court act; and (5) a not-for-profit corporation, as defined in para-
14 graph (a) of section one hundred two of the not-for-profit corporation
15 law, which received at least fifty percent of its budget through munici-
16 pal, state or federal government sources, including, but not limited to,
17 Medicaid or medicare, during its preceding fiscal year.
18 b. "Employee" means [a public] an employee working for an employer as
19 defined in paragraph a of this subdivision.
20 § 2. This act shall take effect one year after it shall have become a
21 law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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