§ 215. Dues or agency shop fee deductions. 1. Notwithstanding any
other law to the contrary, any public employer, any employee
organization, the comptroller and the board, or any of their employees
or agents, shall not be liable for, and shall have a complete defense
to, any claims or actions under the laws of this state for requiring,
deducting, receiving, or retaining dues or agency shop fee deductions
from public employees, and current or former public employees shall not
have standing to pursue these claims or actions, if the dues or fees
were permitted or mandated at the time under the laws of this state then
in force and paid, through payroll deduction or otherwise, prior to June
twenty-seventh, two thousand eighteen.

2. This section shall apply to claims and actions pending or filed on
or after June twenty-seventh, two thousand eighteen.

3. The enactment of this section shall not be interpreted to create
the inference that any relief made unavailable by this section would
otherwise be available.