NY State Senate Bill 2025-S7310

Senate Bill S7310

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Provides for a grace period in which former employees of the department of corrections and community supervision that participated in a strike may return to work

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Civil Service And Pensions Committee

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Delivered to Governor
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2025-S7310 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:: Senate Civil Service And Pensions
Law Section:: Civil Service

2025-S7310 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides for a grace period until July 1, 2025, in which former employees of the department of corrections and community supervision that participated in a strike may return to full duty without discipline.

2025-S7310 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                 
BILL NUMBER: S7310

SPONSOR: STEC
 
TITLE OF BILL:

An act providing for a grace period in which former employees of the
department of corrections and community supervision that participated in
a strike may return to work; and providing for the repeal of such
provisions upon expiration thereof

 
PURPOSE:

To permit the reinstatement of former state Department of Corrections
and Community Supervision employees who were terminated due to the work
stoppage, which began on Feb. 18, 2025.

 
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:

Section 1 -The bill would permit the reinstatement of former state
Department of Corrections and Community Supervision employees who were
terminated due to the work stoppage, which began on Feb. 18, 2025, with-
out disciplinary penalty. It would also allow any former employee who

resigned during the strike shall be eligible for reinstatement.

Section 2 - It would bar the premature recall between Feb. 18 and July
1, 2025 of former employees on pre-approved leave, such as medical,
workers compensation and paid parental leave.

Section 3 -- Provides effective date.

 
JUSTIFICATION:

The recent termination of about 2,000 DOCCS employees in the wake of the
work stoppage, which commenced on Feb. 18, 2025, significantly exacer-
bated the longstanding staffing crisis at prisons operated by the state
Department of Corrections and Community Supervision.

It would take at least five years to replace 2,000 correction officers
through the state academy process. Meanwhile, the state is spending an
estimated $100 million a month on the National Guard members who have
been tapped to fill in the ranks, according to the state Budget Divi-
sion.

This legislation would save the state significant money by cutting the
additional expense required for the National Guard presence in state
prisons. It would also serve to fill out the ranks with trained COs who
could immediately return to work.

 
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

New bill

 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:

A savings to the state.

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect immediately and expire on July 1, 2025.

2025-S7310 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7310
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               April 9, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  STEC  --  read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Civil Service and Pensions
 
 AN ACT providing for a grace period in which  former  employees  of  the
   department  of corrections and community supervision that participated
   in a strike may return to work; and providing for the repeal  of  such
   provisions upon expiration thereof
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. 1. Any employee of the department of corrections and commu-
 nity supervision who engaged in a strike or work stoppage on or  between
 the  dates  of  February  18,  2025, and the effective date of this act,
 shall be allowed to be reinstated and return to work on  their  assigned
 tour  by  July  1, 2025. For any department of corrections and community
 supervision employee who  participated  in  a  voluntary  work  stoppage
 between  February  18,  2025,  and  the  effective  date of this act and
 returns to work before July 1, 2025,  there  shall  be  no  disciplinary
 action or demotion of rank.  Any department of corrections and community
 supervision  employee  who  resigned  between February 18, 2025, and the
 effective date of this act shall be allowed full  reinstatement  to  the
 department  of corrections and community supervision and will be allowed
 to return to full duty without discipline. Any  employee  who  has  been
 terminated or received termination notice shall be returned to full duty
 without discipline and shall be reinstated to the status they maintained
 on or before February 18, 2025.
   2.  No department of corrections and community supervision employee on
 pre-approved leave for family medical leave, workers compensation,  paid
 parental  leave,  long  term  sick  leave, bereavement, or sick leave at
 half-pay, shall be ordered to prematurely return to work between  Febru-
 ary  18, 2025 and July 1, 2025. The provisions of this subdivision shall
 not apply to vacation or personal leave.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall  expire  and  be
 deemed repealed July 1, 2025.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

                                                            LBD11596-01-5

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