Assembly Bill A3708

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Requires state agencies with over 25 percent of their workforce accruing overtime on a calendar year basis to maintain all full time equivalent positions from the previous year

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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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2019-A3708 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Labor
Law Section:
State Employees
Versions Introduced in 2017-2018 Legislative Session:
A7396

2019-A3708 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires state agencies with over 25 percent of their workforce accruing overtime on a calendar year basis and absent an emergency requiring a temporary increase in overtime hours, to maintain all full time equivalent positions from the previous year.

2019-A3708 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   3708
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 30, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. GUNTHER -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Labor
 
 AN ACT to require state agencies with over twenty-five percent of  their
   workforce accruing overtime to maintain all full time equivalent posi-
   tions from the previous year
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Notwithstanding any other law to the  contrary,  any  state
 agency  with  over  25 percent of their workforce accruing overtime on a
 calendar year basis  and  absent  an  emergency  requiring  a  temporary
 increase  in  overtime  hours,  shall  maintain all full time equivalent
 positions from the previous year. State agencies shall report the  total
 number  of agency workers and the total number of workers accruing over-
 time from the previous calendar year, to the Director of Budget by Janu-
 ary 15 of each year. In addition, any agency exceeding the threshold  as
 established  herein  shall  report on the number of full time equivalent
 positions that have been filled in accordance with this section and  all
 efforts  made to reduce overtime to beneath the threshold stated herein.
 Each agency shall further report on the number of temporary workers  and
 per  diem workers in positions in said agency and the specific number of
 hours worked by temporary  and  per  diem  workers.  Said  report  shall
 include  the  length  of time said temporary workers or per diem workers
 have been employed in each agency.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD01462-01-9

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