Senate Bill S4746

2015-2016 Legislative Session

Requires various public transit authorities and their employees to submit all unresolvable contract negotiations to binding arbitration

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2015-S4746 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A5303
Current Committee:
Senate Rules
Law Section:
Civil Service Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §209, Civ Serv L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2013-2014: S7729, A9419
2017-2018: S698, A6233
2019-2020: S1165, S5737, A5342

2015-S4746 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires the Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority, the Rochester-Genesee Regional Transportation Authority, the Capital District Transportation Authority and the Central New York Regional Transportation Authority and their employees to submit all unresolvable contract negotiations to binding arbitration.

2015-S4746 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2015-S4746 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

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

                                  4746

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                             April 15, 2015
                               ___________

Introduced by Sens. FUNKE, AVELLA -- 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

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

  Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 5 of section 209 of the  civil
service  law, as added by chapter 929 of the laws of 1986, is amended to
read as follows:
  (a) In the event that the board certifies that a voluntary  resolution
of the contract negotiations between either (i) the New York city trans-
it  authority  (hereinafter  referred  to as TA-public employer) and the
public employee organization certified or recognized  to  represent  the
majority  of employees of such TA-public employer, or (ii) the metropol-
itan transportation authority, including its subsidiaries, the New  York
city  transit  authority,  including  its subsidiary, and the Triborough
bridge and tunnel authority (all hereinafter referred to  as  MTA-public
employer)  and a public employee organization certified or recognized to
represent employees of such  MTA-public  employer  not  subject  to  the
jurisdiction  of  the  Federal  Railway Labor Act and not subject to the
provisions of subparagraph (i) [hereof] OF  THIS  PARAGRAPH,  which  has
made an election pursuant to paragraph (f) of this subdivision, OR (III)
THE  NIAGARA  FRONTIER  TRANSPORTATION  AUTHORITY, THE ROCHESTER-GENESEE
REGIONAL TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY, THE CAPITAL  DISTRICT  TRANSPORTATION
AUTHORITY  AND  THE  CENTRAL  NEW YORK REGIONAL TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY
(ALL HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AS  UPSTATE  TA-PUBLIC  EMPLOYER)  AND  THE
PUBLIC  EMPLOYEE  ORGANIZATION  CERTIFIED OR RECOGNIZED TO REPRESENT THE
EMPLOYEES OF SUCH UPSTATE TA-PUBLIC EMPLOYER,  cannot  be  effected,  or
upon  the  joint  request of the TA-public employer [or], the MTA-public
employer (hereinafter jointly referred to as  public  employer)  OR  THE

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD09087-01-5
              

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