Senate Bill S10242

                             
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                                May 8, 2026
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 Introduced  by  Sen.  RAMOS  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Civil Service and Pensions
 
 AN ACT to amend the civil service law, in relation to extending  binding
   arbitration provisions to certain villages
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 209 of the civil service  law,  as
 amended  by  section 64 of subpart B of part C of chapter 62 of the laws
 of 2011, is amended to read as follows:
   2. Public employers are hereby empowered to enter into written  agree-
 ments  with recognized or certified employee organizations setting forth
 procedures to be invoked in the event of disputes which reach an impasse
 in the course of collective negotiations. Such  agreements  may  include
 the  undertaking  by each party to submit unresolved issues to impartial
 arbitration. In the absence or upon  the  failure  of  such  procedures,
 public  employers  and  employee  organizations may request the board to
 render assistance as provided in this section, or the board  may  render
 such  assistance  on its own motion, as provided in subdivision three of
 this section, or, in regard to officers or members of any organized fire
 department, or any unit of the public employer which  previously  was  a
 part  of an organized fire department whose primary mission includes the
 prevention and control of aircraft fires, police force or police depart-
 ment of any county, city, town, village or fire or police  district,  or
 detective-investigators, or rackets investigators employed in the office
 of  a  district attorney of a county, or in regard to any organized unit
 of troopers, commissioned or noncommissioned officers of the division of
 state police, or in regard to investigators,  senior  investigators  and
 investigator  specialists  of the division of state police, or in regard
 to members  of  collective  negotiating  units  designated  as  security
 services  and  security  supervisors  who  are  police officers, who are
 forest ranger captains or who are employed by the  state  department  of
 corrections  and community supervision and are designated as peace offi-
 cers pursuant to subdivision twenty-five of section 2.10 of the criminal
 procedure law, or in regard to members  of  the  collective  negotiating
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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 unit  designated  as  the  agency  law enforcement services unit who are
 police officers pursuant to subdivision thirty-four of section  1.20  of
 the  criminal  procedure  law or who are forest rangers, or in regard to
 organized  units of deputy sheriffs who are engaged directly in criminal
 law enforcement activities that aggregate more than fifty per centum  of
 their service as certified by the county sheriff and are police officers
 pursuant  to  subdivision  thirty-four  of  section 1.20 of the criminal
 procedure law as certified by the municipal police training  council  or
 Suffolk  county correction officers or Suffolk county park police, OR IN
 REGARD TO A BARGAINING UNIT IN ANY VILLAGE IN ROCKLAND  COUNTY  WITH  AN
 AGREEMENT THAT HAS BEEN EXPIRED FOR AT LEAST SEVEN YEARS, as provided in
 subdivision four of this section.
   § 2. Subdivision 2 of section 209 of the civil service law, as amended
 by chapter 234 of the laws of 2008, is amended to read as follows:
   2.  Public employers are hereby empowered to enter into written agree-
 ments with recognized or certified employee organizations setting  forth
 procedures to be invoked in the event of disputes which reach an impasse
 in  the  course  of collective negotiations. Such agreements may include
 the undertaking by each party to submit unresolved issues  to  impartial
 arbitration.  In  the  absence  or  upon the failure of such procedures,
 public employers and employee organizations may  request  the  board  to
 render  assistance  as provided in this section, or the board may render
 such assistance on its own motion, as provided in subdivision  three  of
 this section, or, in regard to officers or members of any organized fire
 department,  or  any  unit of the public employer which previously was a
 part of an organized fire department whose primary mission includes  the
 prevention and control of aircraft fires, police force or police depart-
 ment  of any county, city, except the city of New York, town, village or
 fire or police district, or in regard to organized units of deputy sher-
 iffs who are engaged directly in  criminal  law  enforcement  activities
 that  aggregate more than fifty per centum of their service as certified
 by the county sheriff and are police officers  pursuant  to  subdivision
 thirty-four  of  section 1.20 of the criminal procedure law as certified
 by the municipal police training council or  Suffolk  county  correction
 officers  or  Suffolk  county  park police, OR IN REGARD TO A BARGAINING
 UNIT IN ANY VILLAGE IN ROCKLAND COUNTY WITH AN AGREEMENT THAT  HAS  BEEN
 EXPIRED  FOR  AT  LEAST  SEVEN YEARS, as provided in subdivision four of
 this section.
   § 3. The opening paragraph of subdivision 4  of  section  209  of  the
 civil  service  law,  as amended by section 64 of subpart B of part C of
 chapter 62 of the laws of 2011, is amended to read as follows:
   On request of either party or upon its  own  motion,  as  provided  in
 subdivision  two  of this section, and in the event the board determines
 that an impasse exists in collective negotiations between such  employee
 organization and a public employer as to the conditions of employment of
 officers  or members of any organized fire department, or any other unit
 of the public employer which previously was a part of an organized  fire
 department  whose primary mission includes the prevention and control of
 aircraft fires, police force or police department of any  county,  city,
 town,  village  or fire or police district, and detective-investigators,
 criminal investigators or rackets investigators employed in  the  office
 of a district attorney, or as to the conditions of employment of members
 of any organized unit of troopers, commissioned or noncommissioned offi-
 cers  of the division of state police or as to the conditions of employ-
 ment of members of any organized unit of investigators, senior  investi-
 gators  and investigator specialists of the division of state police, or
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 as to the terms and conditions of employment of  members  of  collective
 negotiating  units designated as security services and security supervi-
 sors, who are police officers, who are forest ranger captains or who are
 employed  by  the  state  department of corrections and community super-
 vision and are designated as  peace  officers  pursuant  to  subdivision
 twenty-five  of section 2.10 of the criminal procedure law, or in regard
 to members of the collective negotiating unit designated as  the  agency
 law enforcement services unit who are police officers pursuant to subdi-
 vision  thirty-four of section 1.20 of the criminal procedure law or who
 are forest rangers, or as to the conditions of employment of any  organ-
 ized  unit  of  deputy sheriffs who are engaged directly in criminal law
 enforcement activities that aggregate more  than  fifty  per  centum  of
 their service as certified by the county sheriff and are police officers
 pursuant  to  subdivision  thirty-four  of  section 1.20 of the criminal
 procedure law as certified by the municipal police training  council  or
 Suffolk  county  correction officers or Suffolk county park police, OR A
 BARGAINING UNIT IN ANY VILLAGE IN ROCKLAND COUNTY WITH AN AGREEMENT THAT
 HAS BEEN EXPIRED FOR AT  LEAST  SEVEN  YEARS,  the  board  shall  render
 assistance as follows:
   §  4. Subdivision 4 of section 209 of the civil service law is amended
 by adding a new paragraph (j) to read as follows:
   (J) WITH REGARD TO A VILLAGE IN ROCKLAND COUNTY WITH AN AGREEMENT THAT
 HAS BEEN EXPIRED FOR AT LEAST SEVEN YEARS, NOTWITHSTANDING  SUBPARAGRAPH
 (VI)  OF  PARAGRAPH (C) OF THIS SUBDIVISION, THE ARBITRATION PANEL SHALL
 HAVE NO RESTRICTION IN ISSUING AN AWARD FOR THE  TERM  OF  AN  AGREEMENT
 REGARDING BOTH RETROACTIVE AND PROSPECTIVE YEARS UNDER SUCH AWARD.
   §  5.  This act shall take effect immediately; provided, however, that
 the amendments to subdivision 2 of section 209 of the civil service  law
 made  by  section one of this act shall be subject to the expiration and
 reversion of such subdivision when upon  such  date  the  provisions  of
 section two of this act shall take effect; and provided further, however
 that the amendments to subdivision 4 of section 209 of the civil service
 law  made by sections three and four of this act shall be subject to the
 expiration of such subdivision and shall be deemed to expire therewith.