Senate Bill S5613

2011-2012 Legislative Session

Relates to protection for certain hotel and motel employees

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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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2011-S5613 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Labor
Law Section:
Labor Law
Laws Affected:
Add ยง202-l, Lab L

2011-S5613 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires hotel and motel employers to provide personal electronic devices to certain hotel and motel employees to enable such employees to immediately notify management of an emergency situation.

2011-S5613 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2011-S5613 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  5613

                       2011-2012 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                              June 7, 2011
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sen.  GOLDEN -- 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  protection  of  certain
  hotel and motel employees

  THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1.  The labor law is amended by adding a new section 202-l  to
read as follows:
  S  202-L. PROTECTION OF HOTEL AND MOTEL EMPLOYEES. THE OWNER OR MANAG-
ING AGENT OF EVERY HOTEL AND MOTEL IN THIS  STATE,  AS  SUCH  TERMS  ARE
DEFINED  IN SUBDIVISION ONE OF SECTION THIRTEEN HUNDRED NINETY-NINE-J OF
THE PUBLIC HEALTH LAW, SHALL PROVIDE EACH HOTEL OR  MOTEL  EMPLOYEE  WHO
REGULARLY  ENTERS HOTEL OR MOTEL ROOMS WITH A PERSONAL ELECTRONIC DEVICE
WHICH SHALL HAVE THE SOLE AND EXCLUSIVE FUNCTION OF IMMEDIATELY  NOTIFY-
ING  HOTEL  MANAGEMENT OF AN EMERGENCY SITUATION AT THE PUSH OF A SINGLE
BUTTON.
  S 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
it shall have become a law.





 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD11980-01-1


              

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