Removes certain provisions regarding public hearing and notice requirements prior to issuing safety and health rules, and notice requirements after issuing safety and health rules.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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8239
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
May 27, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. RAMOS -- (at request of the Department of Labor) --
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 procedures for issuing
safety and health rules
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 29 of the labor law, as amended by chapter 756 of
2 the laws of 1975, is amended to read as follows:
3 § 29. Procedure for issuing safety and health rules. [Before any rule
4 is adopted, amended or repealed there shall be a public hearing thereon,
5 notice of which shall be published at least once, not less than ten days
6 prior thereto, in such newspaper or newspapers as the commissioner may
7 prescribe.] The commissioner may appoint committees composed of employ-
8 ers, employees and experts to suggest safety and health rules or changes
9 therein. [Every rule adopted and every amendment or repeal thereof shall
10 be promptly published in such newspaper or newspapers as the commission-
11 er may prescribe. The rules and all amendments and repeals thereof
12 shall, unless otherwise prescribed by the commissioner, take effect
13 twenty days after the first publication thereof and certified copies
14 thereof shall be filed in the office of the department of state.]
15 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD09968-01-5
