New York S 4027: Requires gluten cross contamination safeguards in food establishments owned, operated or leased by any department or agency of the state

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S04027 Summary:

BILL NOS04027 

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SAME ASNo Same As

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SPONSORPARKER

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COSPNSRKRUEGER, SEPULVEDA

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Add §170-i, Exec L

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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.

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BILL NOS04027 

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01/31/2025REFERRED TO FINANCE

01/07/2026REFERRED TO FINANCE

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 4027

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 January 31, 2025
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 Introduced by Sens. PARKER, KRUEGER, SEPULVEDA -- 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-i
 2 to read as follows:
 3 § 170-i. 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.
 LBD07631-01-5

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 1 be employed by the contractor shall not utilize an employment contract
 2 containing clauses which require employees to stipulate to binding arbi-
 3 tration agreements for all disputes unless disputes involving sexual
 4 assault or other assault are excluded.
 5 2. Any contractor, any subsidiary of a contractor, franchiser of the
 6 contractor, and any subcontractor to be employed by the contractor shall
 7 certify that it is in compliance with the requirements of this section.
 8 Such certification shall be filed with the state governmental contract-
 9 ing party and made a part of its contract file.
 10 3. Upon receiving information that a contractor who has made the stip-
 11 ulation and certification required by this section is in violation
 12 thereof, the state governmental contracting party shall review such
 13 information and offer the contractor an opportunity to respond. If the
 14 state governmental contracting party finds that a violation has
 15 occurred, it shall take such action as may be appropriate and provided
 16 for by law, rule or regulation, or contract, including, but not limited
 17 to, imposing sanctions, seeking compliance, recovering damages, declar-
 18 ing the contrac