NY State Senate Bill 2017-S3262

Senate Bill S3262

Signed By Governor

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Directs the president of the civil service commission to study and publish a report evaluating wage disparities among public employers

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Archive: Last Bill Status Via A2549 - Signed by Governor

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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	Assembly Actions - Lowercase Senate Actions - UPPERCASE
Dec 07, 2018	signed chap.403
Nov 26, 2018	delivered to governor
Jun 06, 2018	returned to assembly passed senate 3rd reading cal.1545 substituted for s3262
Jun 06, 2018	substituted by a2549 ordered to third reading cal.1545
Jun 05, 2018	committee discharged and committed to rules
Jan 03, 2018	referred to civil service and pensions
Jan 20, 2017	referred to civil service and pensions

Votes

- Jun 6, 2018 - Floor Vote
  A2549
  
  59
  
  Aye
  
  2
  
  Nay
  
  0
  
  Absent
  
  2
  
  Excused
  
  0
  
  Abstained
  - - Floor Vote: Jun 6, 2018
      
      aye (59)
      
      Addabbo Jr.
      
      Alcantara
      
      Avella
      
      Bailey
      
      Benjamin
      
      Bonacic
      
      Boyle
      
      Breslin
      
      Brooks
      
      Carlucci
      
      Comrie
      
      DeFrancisco
      
      Dilan
      
      Felder
      
      Flanagan
      
      Funke
      
      Gallivan
      
      Gianaris
      
      Golden
      
      Griffo
      
      Hamilton
      
      Hannon
      
      Helming
      
      Hoylman-Sigal
      
      Jacobs
      
      Kaminsky
      
      Kavanagh
      
      Kennedy
      
      Klein
      
      Krueger
      
      LaValle
      
      Lanza
      
      Larkin
      
      Little
      
      Marcellino
      
      Marchione
      
      Mayer
      
      Montgomery
      
      Murphy
      
      O'Mara
      
      Parker
      
      Peralta
      
      Persaud
      
      Phillips
      
      Ranzenhofer
      
      Ritchie
      
      Rivera
      
      Robach
      
      Sanders Jr.
      
      Savino
      
      Sepúlveda
      
      Serino
      
      Serrano
      
      Seward
      
      Stavisky
      
      Stewart-Cousins
      
      Tedisco
      
      Valesky
      
      Young
      
      nay (2)
      
      Akshar
      
      Ortt
      
      excused (2)
      
      Amedore
      
      Croci
  Jun 5, 2018 - Rules Committee Vote
  S3262
  
  22
  
  Aye
  
  0
  
  Nay
  
  3
  
  Aye with Reservations
  
  0
  
  Absent
  
  0
  
  Excused
  
  0
  
  Abstained
  - - Rules Committee Vote: Jun 5, 2018
      
      aye (22)
      
      Breslin
      
      Dilan
      
      Flanagan
      
      Gianaris
      
      Griffo
      
      Hannon
      
      Kennedy
      
      Klein
      
      Krueger
      
      LaValle
      
      Lanza
      
      Larkin
      
      Little
      
      Marcellino
      
      Montgomery
      
      Parker
      
      Rivera
      
      Robach
      
      Savino
      
      Seward
      
      Stewart-Cousins
      
      Valesky
      
      aye wr (3)
      
      Bonacic
      
      DeFrancisco
      
      Ranzenhofer

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2017-S3262 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:: A2549
Law Section:: Civil Service
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:: 2011-2012: A9623
2013-2014: S5391, A881
2015-2016: S3786, A5008

2017-S3262 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Directs the president of the civil service commission to study and publish a report evaluating public employers' wage disparities related to the job titles segregated by the gender, race and/or national origin of the employees in the title.

2017-S3262 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                 BILL NUMBER:  S3262

 TITLE OF BILL :  An act directing the president of the civil service
commission to study and publish a report evaluating wage disparities
among public employers

 PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL :

The purpose of this legislation is to direct the president of the
state Civil Service Commission to study and publish a report
evaluating among public employers the existence of wage disparities
related to job titles segregated by sex, race and/or national origin.

 SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS :

Section 1 declares that the policy of the state is to pursue the
establishment of equitable compensation relationships between female
dominated, male-dominated, and other segregated titles to eliminate
wage disparities in public employment statewide.

Section 2 provides definitions for terms relevant to this act.

Section 3 provides six criteria that must be included in the study and
the report published by the president of the Civil Service Commission.

Section 4 prescribes methodologies for the study which do not

disproportionately undervalue jobs titles or position classifications.

Section 5 requires that the completed wage disparities in segregated
titles the work; be submitted to the Speaker Leader of the Assembly,
the Temporary Minority Leader of the Senate and the Relations.report,
determining if there are based an the equivalent value of of the
Assembly, the Minority President of the Senate, the Governor's Office
of Employee

Section 6 sets forth the effective date.

 JUSTIFICATION :

In its effort to ensure that equivalent value of work is compensated
at the same rate by public employers, regardless of sex, race, or
national origin, New York State needs to establish how and where such
inequities exist. By requiring a comprehensive study With a prescribed
methodology, such as a systematic point factor job evaluation system,
the state will hate critical data to be used for addressing wage
disparities in segregated titles based on the equivalent value of the
work.

 PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY :

2015-16: S.3786A/A.5008A - Amend and Recommit to Civil Service and
Pensions
2013-14: S.5391A/A.881-A - Passed Assembly, Referred to Civil Service
2012: A.9623 - Passed Assembly.

 FISCAL IMPLICATIONS FOR STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS :

None.

 EFFECTIVE DATE :
This act shall take effect immediately.

2017-S3262 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   3262
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 20, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sens. PARKER, BAILEY, KENNEDY, PERKINS -- read twice and
   ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee  on
   Civil Service and Pensions
 
 AN  ACT directing the president of the civil service commission to study
   and publish a report evaluating wage disparities among public  employ-
   ers

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Policy of the state. It is the  policy  of  this  state  to
 pursue the establishment of equitable compensation relationships between
 female-dominated,  male-dominated, and other segregated titles to elimi-
 nate wage disparities in  public  employment  statewide.    Compensation
 relationships  are equitable when the primary consideration in negotiat-
 ing, establishing, recommending, and approving total wages is the equiv-
 alent value of the job title content in relationship to other job titles
 and position classifications in civil service.
   § 2. Definitions. For the purposes of this act,
   (a) the  term "public employer" shall have  the  same  meaning  as  in
 subdivision six of section 201 of the civil service law;
   (b)  the term "position classification" shall have the same meaning as
 in subdivision eleven of section two of the civil service law;
   (c) the term "equal jobs" shall mean jobs that are  equal  within  the
 meaning of the Equal Pay Act of 1963, 29 U.S.C. 206(d);
   (d) the term "equivalent jobs" shall mean jobs or occupations that are
 equal  within  the  meaning  of  the  Equal  Pay  Act of 1963, 29 U.S.C.
 206(d), or jobs or occupations that are dissimilar  but  whose  require-
 ments  are  equivalent when viewed as a composite of the skills, effort,
 responsibilities and working conditions required by the work;
   (e) the term "comparable worth" shall mean the equivalent value of two
 or more job titles for the purpose of  establishing  equivalent  compen-
 sation; and
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

                                                            LBD07410-01-7

 S. 3262                             2
 
   (f)  the  term "wages" and "wage rates" shall include all compensation
 in any form that an employer provides to employees in payment  for  work
 done or services rendered, including but not limited to base pay, bonus-
 es,  commissions, awards, tips, or various forms of non-monetary compen-
 sation  if  provided  in lieu of or in addition to monetary compensation
 and that have economic value to an employee.
   § 3. The president of the state civil  service  commission  is  hereby
 directed to study and publish a report evaluating among public employers
 the  existence  of wage disparities related to the job titles segregated
 by the gender, race and/or national  origin  of  the  employees  in  the
 titles. The study and report shall include, but not be limited to:
   (a)  the extent of wage disparities among job titles or position clas-
 sifications of equal value;
   (b) the extent of segregation of job titles  or  position  classifica-
 tions by gender, race and national origin;
   (c)  the  identification  of segregated job titles or position classi-
 fications that are equivalent and of comparable worth;
   (d) the extent of wage disparities in segregated job titles  or  posi-
 tion classifications that are equivalent and of comparable worth;
   (e) the need for adjustment of wage rates for equivalent job titles or
 position  classifications  to  provide compensation of comparable worth;
 and
   (f) the plans for adjusting wage rates and  other  recommendations  to
 address  any  wage  disparities in both equal jobs and in segregated job
 titles or position classifications that are equivalent and of comparable
 worth.
   § 4. Such study shall use methodologies, such as  a  systematic  point
 factor  job  evaluation  system, that do not undervalue jobs or position
 classifications  that  disproportionately  employ  women  and/or  racial
 and/or national origin minorities to analyze job title or position clas-
 sification content and equivalent value.
   §  5.  The  president  of  the  civil service commission shall use the
 prescribed methodology to determine if there  are  wage  disparities  in
 segregated  titles based on the equivalent value of the work. The presi-
 dent of the civil service commission shall also,  by  January  1,  2019,
 submit the above described published report to the speaker of the assem-
 bly, the minority leader of the assembly, the temporary president of the
 senate,  the  minority leader of the senate and the governor's office of
 employee relations.
   § 6. This act shall take effect immediately.

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