NY State Senate Bill 2021-S4420

Senate Bill S4420

2021-2022 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 05, 2022	referred to labor
Feb 04, 2021	referred to labor

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2021-S4420 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:: A5889
Current Committee:: Senate 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
2019-2020: S4358, A2242
2023-2024: S5153, A775, A8927
2025-2026: S3895, A5012

2021-S4420 (ACTIVE) - Summary

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

2021-S4420 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                
 
BILL NUMBER: S4420

SPONSOR: PARKER
 
TITLE OF BILL:

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

 
PURPOSE:

To ensure employee safety through the development and implementation of
workplace violence prevention programs for not-for-profit corporations
who have received at least fifty percent of their budget through govern-
ment sources.

 
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:

Section 1: Amends paragraph (a) of subdivision 2 of section 27-b of the
labor law, as added by Chapter 82 of the laws of 2006

Section 2: Adds to the definition of employer: a not-for-profit corpo-
ration, as defined in paragraph (a) of section 102 of the not-for-profit
corporation law, who received at least fifty percent of their budget
through government sources.

 
JUSTIFICATION:

Incidents of violence against government employees has become a growing
concern in recent years and is more than 85 percent higher than that of
private sector employees, according to a U.S. Department of Justice
report entitled "Workplace Violence Against Government Employees, 1994 -
2011" released in April 2013. Recognizing the need to ensure that work-
places are free of violence this bill would assist both employers and
employees in ensuring a safe work environment by building upon the New
York' State Workplace Violence Prevention Law enacted on June 7, 2006.
That previously enacted legislation created

Section 27-b of the State Labor Law requiring most public employers to
perform a workplace evaluation and develop and implement programs to
prevent and minimize workplace violence. This legislation broadens the
application of those same successful programs to non-profit organiza-
tions receiving at least 50 percent of their budget from governmental
sources.

 
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

2019/20: 54358- referred to Labor

 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:

None.

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This Act shall take effect immediately.

2021-S4420 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4420
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 4, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sens. PARKER, KENNEDY -- 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 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.
                                                            LBD03625-01-1

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Kevin S. Parker