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Jun 17, 2020 | signed chap.117 |
Jun 05, 2020 | delivered to governor |
May 27, 2020 | returned to senate passed assembly ordered to third reading rules cal.34 substituted for a10326a referred to codes delivered to assembly passed senate ordered to third reading cal.658 |
May 26, 2020 | reported and committed to rules |
May 24, 2020 | print number 8397a |
May 24, 2020 | amend (t) and recommit to labor |
May 21, 2020 | referred to labor |
senate Bill S8397A
Signed By GovernorSponsored By
Diane J. Savino
(D, IP) 0 Senate District
Archive: Last Bill Status - Signed by Governor
- Introduced
- In Committee
- On Floor Calendar
- Passed Senate
- Passed Assembly
- Delivered to Governor
- Signed by Governor
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S8397 - Details
- See Assembly Version of this Bill:
- A10326
- Law Section:
- Labor Law
- Laws Affected:
- Amd §741, Lab L
S8397 - Sponsor Memo
BILL NUMBER: S8397 SPONSOR: SAVINO TITLE OF BILL: An act to amend the labor law, in relation to prohibiting health care employers from penalizing employees because complaints of employer violations PURPOSE: To provide health care workers with whistleblower protections in the State of New York, so that patient care can improve. SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS: Amends paragraph (a) of subdivision 2 of Section 741 of the Labor Law to add the term "general public" to the list of disclosures that health care workers are able-to make without termination or penalty from their employer.
S8397 - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 8397 I N S E N A T E May 21, 2020 ___________ 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 prohibiting health care employers from penalizing employees because complaints of employer violations 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 741 of the labor law, as added by chapter 24 of the laws of 2002, is amended to read as follows: (a) discloses or threatens to disclose to a supervisor, or to a public body, OR TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC an activity, policy or practice of the employer or agent that the employee, in good faith, reasonably believes constitutes improper quality of patient care; or § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD16155-01-0
Co-Sponsors
Alessandra Biaggi
(D, WF) 0 Senate District
David Carlucci
(D) 0 Senate District
Leroy Comrie
(D) 14th Senate District
Robert Jackson
(D, WF) 31st Senate District
S8397A (ACTIVE) - Details
- See Assembly Version of this Bill:
- A10326
- Law Section:
- Labor Law
- Laws Affected:
- Amd §741, Lab L
S8397A (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo
BILL NUMBER: S8397a SPONSOR: SAVINO TITLE OF BILL: An act to amend the labor law, in relation to prohibiting health care employers from penalizing employees because of complaints of employer violations PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL: To provide health care workers with greater whistleblower protections in the State of New York, so that patient care can improve and such workers can be safe. SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS: Section 1. Section 741 of the labor law is amended to: create a new definition of "improper quality of workplace safety", where an employee is protected from employer retaliation if they report violations of this category to specified entities in the section; and, adds "news media
S8397A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 8397--A I N S E N A T E May 21, 2020 ___________ Introduced by Sen. SAVINO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Labor -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to prohibiting health care employers from penalizing employees because of complaints of employer violations THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Subdivisions 1, 2 and 3 of section 741 of the labor law, as added by chapter 24 of the laws of 2002, paragraph (b) of subdivision 1 as amended by chapter 505 of the laws of 2003, are amended to read as follows: 1. Definitions. As used in this section, the following terms shall have the following meanings: (a) "Employee" means any person who performs health care services for and under the control and direction of any public or private employer which provides health care services for wages or other remuneration. (b) "Employer" means any partnership, association, corporation, the state, or any political subdivision of the state which: (i) provides health care services in a facility licensed pursuant to article twenty- eight or thirty-six of the public health law; (ii) provides health care services within a primary or secondary public or private school or public or private university setting; (iii) operates and provides health care services under the mental hygiene law or the correction law; or (iv) is registered with the department of education pursuant to section sixty-eight hundred eight of the education law. (c) "Agent" means any individual, partnership, association, corpo- ration, or group of persons acting on behalf of an employer. (d) "Improper quality of patient care" means, with respect to patient care, any practice, procedure, action or failure to act of an employer which violates any law, rule, regulation or declaratory ruling adopted pursuant to law, where such violation relates to matters which may pres- ent a substantial and specific danger to public health or safety or a significant threat to the health of a specific patient. (e) "IMPROPER QUALITY OF WORKPLACE SAFETY" MEANS, WITH RESPECT TO
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