assembly Bill A2242

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to the definition of employer and the duty of public employers to develop and implement programs to prevent workplace violence

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Jan 08, 2020 referred to labor
Jan 22, 2019 referred to labor

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A2242 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S4358
Current Committee:
Assembly Labor
Law Section:
Labor Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §27-b, Lab L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2013-2014: A7765
2015-2016: A7718
2017-2018: A3809
2021-2022: A5889, S4420
2023-2024: A775, S5153

A2242 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to the definition of employer and the duty of public employers to develop and implement programs to prevent workplace violence.

A2242 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 


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

                                  2242

                       2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            January 22, 2019
                               ___________

Introduced  by  M.  of A. JOYNER, COOK, GLICK, GOTTFRIED, JAFFEE, PERRY,
  ROZIC, SIMON, PICHARDO, D'URSO, ARROYO, ORTIZ,  BARRON,  L. ROSENTHAL,
  RIVERA,  BICHOTTE -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. ABBATE, EPSTEIN --
  read once and referred to the Committee on Labor

AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to the definition of employer
  and the duty of public employers to develop and implement programs  to
  prevent workplace violence

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

  Section 1. 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) the state; (2) 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) a public authority, a public benefit corporation,  or  any
other  governmental  agency  or  instrumentality  thereof;  [and] (4) 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; AND (5) A NOT-FOR-PROFIT CORPORATION, AS DEFINED IN  PARA-
GRAPH  (A)  OF SECTION ONE HUNDRED TWO OF THE NOT-FOR-PROFIT CORPORATION
LAW, WHO RECEIVED AT LEAST FIFTY PERCENT OF THEIR BUDGET THROUGH GOVERN-
MENT SOURCES.
  § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.



 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD00274-01-9