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Senate Bill S3684

2013-2014 Legislative Session

Requires notification of actions of perpetrator of crime in workplace to former employer or workplace

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2013-S3684 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Labor
Law Section:
Labor Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง27-b, Lab L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: S5152
2011-2012: S1817

2013-S3684 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires notification of actions of perpetrator of crime in workplace to former employer or workplace.

2013-S3684 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  3684

                       2013-2014 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                            February 11, 2013
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sen.  SAVINO -- 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  preventing  workplace
  violence

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

  Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may  be  cited  as
"Joanne's law".
  S 2. Paragraph a of subdivision 2 of section 27-b of the labor law, as
amended  by  chapter  504  of  the  laws  of 2011, is amended to read as
follows:
  a. "Employer" means: (1) ANY PRIVATE OR NON-MUNICIPAL INDUSTRY, TRADE,
OCCUPATION OR PROCESS; (2) the state; [(2)] (3) a political  subdivision
of the state, provided, however that this subdivision shall not mean any
employer  as defined in section twenty-eight hundred one-a of the educa-
tion law; [(3)] (4) a public authority, a public benefit corporation, or
any other governmental agency or instrumentality thereof; and [(4)]  (5)
an  authorized  agency as defined in paragraph (a) of subdivision ten of
section three hundred  seventy-one  of  the  social  services  law  that
accepts children adjudicated delinquent under article three of the fami-
ly court act.
  S 3. Section 27-b of the labor law is amended by adding a new subdivi-
sion 7 to read as follows:
  7.  NOTIFICATION OF ACTIONS OF CRIME PERPETRATORS. THE PROPER AUTHORI-
TIES HAVING JURISDICTION OF A PERSON WHO HAS  COMMITTED  A  CRIME  IN  A
WORKPLACE  SHALL  NOTIFY THE FORMER EMPLOYER OF SAID PERSON OR THE WORK-
PLACE WHERE HE OR SHE WAS EMPLOYED  IF  SAID  PERSON  IS  RELEASED  FROM
INCARCERATION  OR HAS VIOLATED THE PROVISIONS OF HIS OR HER PROBATION OR
PAROLE. A WORKPLACE SHALL BE  NOTIFIED  ABOVE  ONLY  IF  THE  CRIME  WAS
COMMITTED  IN THE WORKPLACE AND THE EMPLOYER WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR NOTIFY-
ING THE PROPER POLICE AGENCY OF THE COMMISSION  OF  SAID  CRIME.    THIS

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD08682-01-3

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