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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3129--A
2011-2012 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 9, 2011
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Introduced by Sen. ADDABBO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Labor -- recommitted to
the Committee on Labor in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 --
committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and
recommitted to said committee
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 amended by chapter 504 of the laws of 2011, is amended to read as
5 follows:
6 a. "Employer" means: (1) the state; (2) a political subdivision of the
7 state[, provided, however that this subdivision shall not mean any
8 employer as defined in section twenty-eight hundred one-a of the educa-
9 tion law]; (3) a public authority, a public benefit corporation, or any
10 other governmental agency or instrumentality thereof; and (4) an author-
11 ized agency as defined in paragraph (a) of subdivision ten of section
12 three hundred seventy-one of the social services law that accepts chil-
13 dren adjudicated delinquent under article three of the family court act.
14 § 3. The provisions of this act shall not diminish the rights of
15 employees pursuant to any law, rule, regulation or collective bargaining
16 agreement.
17 § 4. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
18 it shall have become a law; provided, however, that effective immediate-
19 ly, the addition, amendment, and/or repeal of any rule, regulation or
20 guideline necessary for the implementation of this act on its effective
21 date is authorized and directed to be made and completed on or before
22 such date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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