STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5012 2025-2026 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY February 10, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. BRONSON, SHIMSKY, TAPIA, STECK -- 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: 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. LBD06567-01-5