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                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              March 10, 2017
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 Introduced  by M. of A. GOODELL -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Governmental Employees
 
 AN ACT to amend the civil service law, in relation to  the  requirements
   of  a  public  employer  when  a  collective  bargaining agreement has
   expired and a new agreement is not in place

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Paragraph  (e)  of  subdivision 1 of section 209-a of the
 civil service law, as amended by chapter 244 of the  laws  of  2007,  is
 amended to read as follows:
   (e)  to refuse to continue all the terms of an expired agreement until
 a new agreement is negotiated, unless the employee organization which is
 a party to such agreement has, during such negotiations or prior to such
 resolution of such negotiations, engaged in conduct violative of  subdi-
 vision  one of section two hundred ten of this article, PROVIDED, HOWEV-
 ER, THAT NOTHING HEREIN OR IN ANY OTHER PROVISION OF LAW SHALL REQUIRE A
 PUBLIC EMPLOYER TO PAY HIGHER WAGES OR BENEFITS TO ANY EMPLOYEE BASED ON
 LONGEVITY, LENGTH OF SERVICE OR PASSAGE OF TIME AFTER THE EXPIRATION  OF
 SUCH AGREEMENT AND BEFORE A NEW AGREEMENT HAS BEEN NEGOTIATED, INCLUDING
 WITHOUT  LIMITATION  ANY  STEP INCREASES IN WAGES BASED ON EXISTING WAGE
 SCALES, LONGEVITY PAYMENTS, INCREASED  VACATION  OR  PERSONAL  TIME,  OR
 OTHER SIMILAR INCREASES IN WAGES OR BENEFITS;
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD10391-01-7