NEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLY MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT OF LEGISLATION submitted in accordance with Assembly Rule III, Sec 1(f)
BILL NUMBER: A8927
SPONSOR: Bronson 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 OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL:
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 one would amend the definition of "employer" under Paragraph a
of Subdivision 2 of Section 27-b of the Labor Law to include a not-for-
profit corporation that received at least fifty percent of their budget
through government sources for the purposes of requiring such entities
to develop and implement workplace violence prevention programs.
Section two would set the effective date.
DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ORIGINAL AND AMENDED VERSION (IF APPLICABLE):
N/A
JUSTIFICATION:
The incidence 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 Employ-
ees, 1994 - 2011" released in April 2013. Recognizing the need to ensure
that workplaces are free of violence this bill would assist both employ-
ers 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:
2023-2024: A775 - Referred to Labor; enacting clause stricken
2021-2022: A5889 - Referred to Labor
2019-2020: A2242 - Referred to Labor
2017-2018: A3809 - Referred to Labor
2015-2016: A7718 - Referred to Labor
2013-2014: A7765 - Referred to Labor
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:
None to the State.
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act would take effect immediately.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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8927
IN ASSEMBLY
January 30, 2024
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Introduced by M. of A. BRONSON -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee 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:
1 Section 1. Paragraph a of subdivision 2 of section 27-b of the labor
2 law, as amended by chapter 351 of the laws of 2023, is amended to read
3 as follows:
4 a. "Employer" means: (1) the state; (2) a political subdivision of the
5 state; (3) a public authority, a public benefit corporation, or any
6 other governmental agency or instrumentality thereof; [and] (4) an
7 authorized agency as defined in paragraph (a) of subdivision ten of
8 section three hundred seventy-one of the social services law that
9 accepts children adjudicated delinquent under article three of the fami-
10 ly court act; and (5) a not-for-profit corporation, as defined in para-
11 graph (a) of section one hundred two of the not-for-profit corporation
12 law, who received at least fifty percent of their budget through govern-
13 ment sources.
14 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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