Assembly Bill A775

2023-2024 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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  • 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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2023-A775 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S5153
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: A2242, S4358
2021-2022: A5889, S4420
2025-2026: A5012, S3895

2023-A775 (ACTIVE) - Summary

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

2023-A775 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    775
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 11, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. JOYNER -- 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.
                                                            LBD02338-01-3

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