STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5680 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN SENATE April 25, 2017 ___________ Introduced by Sen. ORTT -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Finance AN ACT to require state agencies with over twenty-five percent of their workforce accruing overtime to maintain all full time equivalent posi- tions from the previous year The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, any state 2 agency with over 25 percent of their workforce accruing overtime on a 3 calendar year basis and absent an emergency requiring a temporary 4 increase in overtime hours, shall maintain all full time equivalent 5 positions from the previous year. State agencies shall report the total 6 number of agency workers and the total number of workers accruing over- 7 time from the previous calendar year, to the Director of Budget by Janu- 8 ary 15 of each year. In addition, any agency exceeding the threshold as 9 established herein shall report on the number of full time equivalent 10 positions that have been filled in accordance with this section and all 11 efforts made to reduce overtime to beneath the threshold stated herein. 12 Each agency shall further report on the number of temporary workers and 13 per diem workers in positions in said agency and the specific number of 14 hours worked by temporary and per diem workers. Said report shall 15 include the length of time said temporary workers or per diem workers 16 have been employed in each agency. 17 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD11081-01-7