Bill Text: NY S02452 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Prohibits the state from entering into certain contracts with companies requiring employees to stipulate to binding arbitration for all disputes unless it excludes disputes involving sexual assault.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 0000-00-00 - [S02452 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S02452-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2452
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    January 23, 2015
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        Introduced  by  Sens. PARKER, KRUEGER, SAMPSON -- read twice and ordered
          printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Finance
        AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to prohibiting the  state
          from  entering  into  contracts  with companies requiring employees to
          stipulate to binding arbitration for all disputes
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1. The executive law is amended by adding a new section 170-c
     2  to read as follows:
     3    § 170-c. Prohibiting the state and certain state entities from  enter-
     4  ing  into contracts with certain companies requiring employees to stipu-
     5  late to binding arbitration agreements. 1.  Notwithstanding  any  incon-
     6  sistent  provisions of any general or special law or resolution, neither
     7  the state nor any state agency including: (i) any state  department,  or
     8  (ii) any division, board, commission, or bureau of any state department,
     9  or (iii) the state university of New York and the city university of New
    10  York,  including  all their constituent units, except community colleges
    11  and the  independent  institutions  operating  statutory    or  contract
    12  colleges  on  behalf  of the state, or (iv) a board, a majority of whose
    13  members are appointed by the governor or who serve by  virtue  of  being
    14  state  officers  or  employees  as  defined in subparagraph (i), (ii) or
    15  (iii) of paragraph (i)  of subdivision one of section  seventy-three  of
    16  the  public  officers  law,  (v) any public authority, other than multi-
    17  state authorities, public benefit corporations, and commissions at least
    18  one of whose members is appointed by the governor, nor  the  legislative
    19  and  judicial branches of government, nor any fund of any of the forego-
    20  ing, nor any officer of any of the foregoing, shall contract or renew  a
    21  contract  for  the  supply  of goods, services, or construction with any
    22  overseas contractor who does not agree to stipulate to the following  as
    23  a  material condition of the contract: the contractor, any subsidiary of
    24  a contractor, any franchiser of the contractor, and any subcontractor to
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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