Enacts the "school workplace violence prevention act"; relates to developing and implementing programs to prevent workplace violence in public schools.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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2011-2012 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 28, 2011
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Introduced by M. of A. LANCMAN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Labor
AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to enacting the "school work-
place violence prevention 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 "school
2 workplace violence prevention act".
3 § 2. Paragraph a of subdivision 2 of section 27-b of the labor law, as
4 added by chapter 82 of the laws of 2006, is amended to 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]; and (3) a public authority, a public benefit corporation, or
9 any other governmental agency or instrumentality thereof.
10 § 3. The provisions of this act shall not diminish the rights of
11 employees pursuant to any law, rule, regulation or collective bargaining
12 agreement.
13 § 4. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
14 it shall have become a law; provided, however, that effective immediate-
15 ly, the addition, amendment, and/or repeal of any rule, regulation or
16 guideline necessary for the implementation of this act on its effective
17 date is authorized and directed to be made and completed on or before
18 such date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD01375-02-1
