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S8239 • 2025

Relates to procedures for issuing safety and health rules

Relates to procedures for issuing safety and health rules

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Sponsor
Jessica Ramos
Last action
2026-06-04
Official status
In Assembly Committee
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Relates to procedures for issuing safety and health rules

Relates to procedures for issuing safety and health rules Removes certain provisions regarding public hearing and notice requirements prior to issuing safety and health rules, and notice requirements after issuing safety and health rules.

What This Bill Does

  • Relates to procedures for issuing safety and health rules Removes certain provisions regarding public hearing and notice requirements prior to issuing safety and health rules, and notice requirements after issuing safety and health rules.

Limits and Unknowns

  • This entry is temporarily using official source text because the generated explanation could not be confirmed against the official bill text during the last sync.

Bill History

  1. 2026-06-04 Senate

    COMMITTEE DISCHARGED AND COMMITTED TO RULES

  2. 2026-06-04 Senate

    ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.1725

  3. 2026-06-04 Senate

    PASSED SENATE

  4. 2026-06-04 Senate

    DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY

  5. 2026-06-04 Assembly

    REFERRED TO LABOR

  6. 2026-01-07 Assembly

    DIED IN ASSEMBLY

  7. 2026-01-07 Assembly

    RETURNED TO SENATE

  8. 2026-01-07 Senate

    REFERRED TO LABOR

  9. 2025-06-10 Senate

    COMMITTEE DISCHARGED AND COMMITTED TO RULES

  10. 2025-06-10 Senate

    ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.1784

  11. 2025-06-10 Senate

    PASSED SENATE

  12. 2025-06-10 Senate

    DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY

  13. 2025-06-10 Assembly

    REFERRED TO LABOR

  14. 2025-05-27 Senate

    REFERRED TO LABOR

Official Summary Text

Relates to procedures for issuing safety and health rules
Removes certain provisions regarding public hearing and notice requirements prior to issuing safety and health rules, and notice requirements after issuing safety and health rules.

Current Bill Text

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S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          8239

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                                    I N  S E N A T E

                                      May 27, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen. RAMOS -- (at request of the Department of Labor) --
          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 procedures for issuing
          safety and health rules

          THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
        BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

     1    Section  1.  Section 29 of the labor law, as amended by chapter 756 of
     2  the laws of 1975, is amended to read as follows:
     3    § 29. Procedure for issuing safety and health rules. [Before any  rule
     4  is adopted, amended or repealed there shall be a public hearing thereon,
     5  notice of which shall be published at least once, not less than ten days
     6  prior  thereto,  in such newspaper or newspapers as the commissioner may
     7  prescribe.]  The commissioner may appoint committees composed of employ-
     8  ers, employees and experts to suggest SAFETY AND HEALTH rules or changes
     9  therein. [Every rule adopted and every amendment or repeal thereof shall
    10  be promptly published in such newspaper or newspapers as the commission-
    11  er may prescribe. The rules  and  all  amendments  and  repeals  thereof
    12  shall,  unless  otherwise  prescribed  by  the commissioner, take effect
    13  twenty days after the first publication  thereof  and  certified  copies
    14  thereof shall be filed in the office of the department of state.]
    15    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD09968-01-5