Senate Bill S548

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to providing financial equity to certain state employees who received a bargaining unit change

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Civil Service And Pensions Committee

  • 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-S548 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A10047
Current Committee:
Senate Civil Service And Pensions
Law Section:
Civil Service
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: S8923, A11291
2021-2022: S1939, A4192

2019-S548 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to providing financial equity to certain state employees who received a bargaining unit change; directs the governor's office of employee relations to conduct a study to determine if any state employee suffered a financial loss due to the public employment relations board decision C-6005; requires the state comptroller to make a payment to any employee determined to suffer a reduction in pay equal to the amount of such reduction.

2019-S548 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2019-S548 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    548
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 9, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  AKSHAR -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Civil Service and Pensions
 
 AN ACT to provide  financial  equity  to  certain  state  employees  who
   received a bargaining unit change

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the  contrary,  the
 governor's  office  of  employee relations, in consultation with the New
 York state public  employment  relations  board  and  the  professional,
 scientific  and  technical services unit shall conduct a study to deter-
 mine if any state employee suffered  a  financial  loss  due  to  public
 employment  relations  board  decision C-6005 to change bargaining units
 for certain employees. Such study shall be completed within one  hundred
 twenty days of the effective date of this act.
   If any employee is found to have experienced a reduction in pay due to
 such bargaining unit change, the governor's office of employee relations
 shall  notify  such  affected employee and the office of the state comp-
 troller in writing within thirty days of issuance of such  study.    The
 office  of the state comptroller shall make a payment within thirty days
 of receiving such written notice to any employee the  governor's  office
 of  employee  relations  determined suffered a reduction in pay equal to
 the amount of such reduction. Such payment shall be in any form current-
 ly allowed by law.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD03035-01-9

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