Bill Text: NY S04056 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Permits school districts and entities licensed pursuant to section three hundred ninety of the social services law to look at the social media accounts of prospective employees.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-31 - REFERRED TO LABOR [S04056 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-S04056-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          4056

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 31, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen. MATTERA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Labor

        AN ACT to  amend  the  labor  law,  in  relation  to  permitting  school
          districts  and  childcare  businesses  to  look  at  the  social media
          accounts of prospective employees

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.  Paragraph  (c)  of  subdivision 1 of section 201-i of the
     2  labor law, as added by chapter 367 of the laws of 2023,  is  amended  to
     3  read as follows:
     4    (c)  "Employer"  means  (i)  a person or entity engaged in a business,
     5  industry, profession, trade or other enterprise in the state;  (ii)  the
     6  state  of  New  York;  (iii)  a county, city, town, village or any other
     7  political subdivision or civil division of the  state;  (iv)  [a  school
     8  district   or]  any  government  entity  operating  a  [public  school,]
     9  college[,] or university; (v) a public improvement or special  district;
    10  (vi)  a  public  authority, commission or public benefit corporation; or
    11  (vii) any other public corporation, agency, instrumentality or  unit  of
    12  government  which  exercises  governmental  power  under the laws of the
    13  state; and (viii) shall include an agent, representative or designee  of
    14  the employer.
    15    §  2.  Subdivision  6  of  section 201-i of the labor law, as added by
    16  chapter 367 of the laws of 2023, is amended to read as follows:
    17    6. The provisions of this section shall not apply to any law  enforce-
    18  ment  agency,  a  fire  department [or], a department of corrections and
    19  community supervision, a school district, or any entity licensed  pursu-
    20  ant to section three hundred ninety of the social services law.
    21    § 3. 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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