Prohibits the state university of New York from contracting out to the ground lessee or any subsidiary of the ground lessee or the research foundation for the state university of New York for any services or privatize any services currently being performed by employees in the unclassified service at the state university of New York at Albany.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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7427
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
March 26, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. ROMERO -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Higher Education
AN ACT to amend chapter 670 of the laws of 2024 relating to authorizing
the lease of certain lands for the Albany NanoTech Complex, in
relation to prohibiting the state university of New York from
contracting out certain services
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Chapter 670 of the laws of 2024 relating to authorizing the
2 lease of certain lands for the Albany NanoTech Complex, is amended by
3 adding a new section 5-a to read as follows:
4 § 5-a. 1. The provisions of this section shall only apply to employees
5 in the unclassified service at the state university of New York.
6 2. Notwithstanding any law, rule or regulation to the contrary, the
7 state university of New York or an affiliated or associated entity of
8 the state university of New York shall not contract out to the ground
9 lessee or any subsidiary of the ground lessee or the research foundation
10 for the state university of New York for any services or privatize any
11 services currently being performed by employees in the unclassified
12 service at the state university of New York at Albany. All such func-
13 tions and services currently performed by employees in unclassified
14 service shall be performed by employees in the unclassified service.
15 3. Nothing in this act relating to the lease of property to private
16 entities for the development, construction, or operation of facilities
17 shall be deemed to waive or impair any rights or benefits of employees
18 of the state university of New York that otherwise would be available to
19 them pursuant to the terms of agreements between the certified represen-
20 tatives of such employees and the state of New York or provisions of
21 article fourteen of the civil service law. SUNY and the state of New
22 York acknowledge their obligations as an employer and agree that they
23 will not exercise their right to contract out for services under any
24 applicable collective bargaining agreement.
25 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD10360-02-5
