STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5435
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 12, 2019
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        Introduced  by M. of A. GOODELL -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Governmental Employees
        AN ACT to amend the civil service law, in relation to  the  requirements
          of  a  public  employer  when  a  collective  bargaining agreement has
          expired and a new agreement is not in place
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Paragraph  (e)  of  subdivision 1 of section 209-a of the
     2  civil service law, as amended by chapter 244 of the  laws  of  2007,  is
     3  amended to read as follows:
     4    (e)  to refuse to continue all the terms of an expired agreement until
     5  a new agreement is negotiated, unless the employee organization which is
     6  a party to such agreement has, during such negotiations or prior to such
     7  resolution of such negotiations, engaged in conduct violative of  subdi-
     8  vision  one of section two hundred ten of this article, provided, howev-
     9  er, that nothing herein or in any other provision of law shall require a
    10  public employer to pay higher wages or benefits to any employee based on
    11  longevity, length of service or passage of time after the expiration  of
    12  such agreement and before a new agreement has been negotiated, including
    13  without  limitation  any  step increases in wages based on existing wage
    14  scales, longevity payments, increased  vacation  or  personal  time,  or
    15  other similar increases in wages or benefits;
    16    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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