STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1746 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN SENATE January 13, 2023 ___________ Introduced by Sens. RAMOS, GOUNARDES, LIU, MYRIE, PERSAUD, SALAZAR, SANDERS, SKOUFIS -- 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 developing and implement- ing programs to prevent workplace violence in public schools 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 504 of the laws of 2011, is amended to read 3 as follows: 4 a. "Employer" means: (1) the state; (2) a political subdivision of the 5 state[, provided, however that this subdivision shall not mean any 6 employer as defined in section twenty-eight hundred one-a of the educa- 7 tion law]; (3) a public authority, a public benefit corporation, or any 8 other governmental agency or instrumentality thereof; and (4) an author- 9 ized agency as defined in paragraph (a) of subdivision ten of section 10 three hundred seventy-one of the social services law that accepts chil- 11 dren adjudicated delinquent under article three of the family court act. 12 § 2. The provisions of this act shall not diminish the rights of 13 employees pursuant to any law, rule, regulation or collective bargaining 14 agreement. 15 § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after 16 it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amend- 17 ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen- 18 tation of this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and 19 completed on or before such effective date. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD04441-01-3