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Assembly Bill A2565

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Relates to eliminating a disincentive for whistleblowers

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2017-A2565 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S6729
Current Committee:
Senate Labor
Law Section:
Labor Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §740, Lab L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2013-2014: A8483
2015-2016: A1088
2019-2020: A375, S2736

2017-A2565 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to eliminating a disincentive for whistleblowers.

2017-A2565 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   2565
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 20, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. STECK -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Labor
 
 AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to eliminating a disincentive
   for whistleblowers
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section  1. Subdivision 7 of section 740 of the labor law, as added by
 chapter 660 of the laws of 1984, is amended to read as follows:
   7. Existing rights. Nothing in this section shall be deemed to  dimin-
 ish  the rights, privileges, or remedies of any employee under any other
 law or regulation  or  under  any  collective  bargaining  agreement  or
 employment  contract[;  except  that  the  institution  of  an action in
 accordance with this section shall be deemed a waiver of the rights  and
 remedies  available  under  any  other  contract,  collective bargaining
 agreement, law, rule or regulation or under the common law].
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD07668-01-7

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