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Jan 06, 2010 |
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Apr 27, 2009 |
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Senate Bill S5017
2009-2010 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
(D, IP) Senate District
Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Civil Service And Pensions Committee
- Introduced
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- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
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- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
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- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- Delivered to Governor
- Signed By Governor
Actions
2009-S5017 (ACTIVE) - Details
- See Assembly Version of this Bill:
- A4063
- Current Committee:
- Senate Civil Service And Pensions
- Law Section:
- Civil Service Law
- Laws Affected:
- Amd ยง209, Civ Serv L
2009-S5017 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo
BILL NUMBER: S5017 TITLE OF BILL : An act to amend the civil service law, in relation to resolution of disputes in the course of collective negotiations for organized units of county correction officers and deputy sheriff-jailers PURPOSE : Allows a public employer to enter into written agreements with any organized unit of county correction officers and deputy sheriff-jailers setting forth procedures to use for dispute resolution. SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS : Subdivision 2 of section 209 of the Civil Service Law is amended. The opening paragraph of subdivision 4 of section 209 of the Civil Service Law is amended and a new paragraph (h) is added. JUSTIFICATION : Binding arbitration for all local firefighters and police was initially adopted in 1974 (Chapters 724 and 725 of the Laws of 1974). The purpose of the law was to provide a fair method for resolving contractual disputes involving police and firefighters and in turn to avoid strikes by employees who provide critical public safety services.
2009-S5017 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 5017 2009-2010 Regular Sessions I N S E N A T E April 27, 2009 ___________ Introduced by Sen. SAVINO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Civil Service and Pensions AN ACT to amend the civil service law, in relation to resolution of disputes in the course of collective negotiations for organized units of county correction officers and deputy sheriff-jailers THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 209 of the civil service law, as amended by section 1 of chapter 234 of the laws of 2008, is amended to read as follows: 2. Public employers are hereby empowered to enter into written agree- ments with recognized or certified employee organizations setting forth procedures to be invoked in the event of disputes which reach an impasse in the course of collective negotiations. Such agreements may include the undertaking by each party to submit unresolved issues to impartial arbitration. In the absence or upon the failure of such procedures, public employers and employee organizations may request the board to render assistance as provided in this section, or the board may render such assistance on its own motion, as provided in subdivision three of this section, or, in regard to officers or members of any organized fire department, or any unit of the public employer which previously was a part of an organized fire department whose primary mission includes the prevention and control of aircraft fires, police force or police depart- ment of any county, city, town, village or fire or police district, or detective-investigators, or rackets investigators employed in the office of a district attorney of a county, or in regard to any organized unit of troopers, commissioned or noncommissioned officers of the division of state police, or in regard to investigators, senior investigators and investigator specialists of the division of state police, or in regard to members of collective negotiating units designated as security services and security supervisors who are police officers, who are EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD03317-01-9
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