STATE OF NEW YORK
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5350
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
March 22, 2017
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Introduced by Sen. ALCANTARA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Labor
AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to developing and implement-
ing programs to prevent workplace violence in public schools
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph a of subdivision 2 of section 27-b of the labor
2 law, as amended by chapter 504 of the laws of 2011, is amended to read
3 as follows:
4 a. "Employer" means: (1) the state; (2) a political subdivision of the
5 state[, provided, however that this subdivision shall not mean any
6 employer as defined in section twenty-eight hundred one-a of the educa-
7 tion law]; (3) a public authority, a public benefit corporation, or any
8 other governmental agency or instrumentality thereof; and (4) an author-
9 ized agency as defined in paragraph (a) of subdivision ten of section
10 three hundred seventy-one of the social services law that accepts chil-
11 dren adjudicated delinquent under article three of the family court act.
12 § 2. The provisions of this act shall not diminish the rights of
13 employees pursuant to any law, rule, regulation or collective bargaining
14 agreement.
15 § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
16 it shall have become a law; provided, however, that effective immediate-
17 ly, the addition, amendment, and/or repeal of any rule, regulation or
18 guideline necessary for the implementation of this act on its effective
19 date is authorized and directed to be made and completed on or before
20 such date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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