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Assembly Bill A9963

Signed By Governor

2011-2012 Legislative Session

Provides that police officers and firefighters employed by bi-state authorities are covered under health and safety standards for public employees

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2011-A9963 - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S7001
Law Section:
Labor Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §27-a, Lab L

2011-A9963 - Summary

Provides that police officers and firefighters employed by bi-state authorities are covered under health and safety standards for public employees.

2011-A9963 - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  9963

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                             April 27, 2012
                               ___________

Introduced by M. of A. ABBATE -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. BRENNAN,
  GOLDFEDER  --  read once and referred to the Committee on Governmental
  Employees

AN ACT to amend the labor law, in  relation  to  providing  that  police
  officers and firefighters employed by bi-state authorities are covered
  under health and safety standards for public employees

  THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1. Paragraphs a and d of subdivision 1 of section 27-a of  the
labor  law,  as added by chapter 729 of the laws of 1980, are amended to
read as follows:
  a. "Employer" means the state, any political subdivision of the state,
a public authority, A BI-STATE AUTHORITY UTILIZING ITS OWN POLICE  OFFI-
CERS OR FIREFIGHTERS or any other governmental agency or instrumentality
thereof.
  d. "Public  employee"  means  any employee of the state, any political
subdivision of the state,  a  public  authority,  A  BI-STATE  AUTHORITY
UTILIZING  ITS  OWN POLICE OFFICERS OR FIREFIGHTERS or any other govern-
mental agency or instrumentality.
  S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.





 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD15353-01-2

multi-Sponsors

2011-A9963A (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S7001
Law Section:
Labor Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §27-a, Lab L

2011-A9963A (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides that police officers and firefighters employed by bi-state authorities are covered under health and safety standards for public employees.

2011-A9963A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                 9963--A

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                             April 27, 2012
                               ___________

Introduced by M. of A. ABBATE -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. BRENNAN,
  GOLDFEDER  --  read once and referred to the Committee on Governmental
  Employees -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted  as
  amended and recommitted to said committee

AN  ACT  to  amend  the  labor law, in relation to providing that police
  officers and firefighters employed by bi-state authorities are covered
  under health and safety standards for public employees

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section  1. Paragraphs a and d of subdivision 1 of section 27-a of the
labor law, as added by chapter 729 of the laws of 1980, are  amended  to
read as follows:
  a. "Employer" means the state, any political subdivision of the state,
a  public authority, A BI-STATE AUTHORITY UTILIZING ITS OWN POLICE OFFI-
CERS OR FIREFIGHTERS or any other governmental agency or instrumentality
thereof.
  d. "Public employee" means any employee of the  state,  any  political
subdivision  of  the  state,  a  public  authority, A BI-STATE AUTHORITY
UTILIZING ITS OWN POLICE OFFICERS OR FIREFIGHTERS or any  other  govern-
mental agency or instrumentality.
  S  2.  This  act  shall take effect upon the enactment into law by the
state of New Jersey of legislation having an identical effect with  this
act,  but  if  the  state  of New Jersey shall have already enacted such
legislation, this act shall take effect immediately; provided  that  the
state  of  New Jersey shall notify the legislative bill drafting commis-
sion upon the occurrence of the enactment of  the  legislation  provided
for in section one of this act in order that the commission may maintain
an  accurate  and timely effective data base of the official text of the
laws of the state  of  New  York  in  furtherance  of  effectuating  the
provisions  of section 44 of the legislative law and section 70-b of the
public officers law.


 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD15353-02-2

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