---
type: "Bill"
title: "Protects certain employees from a reduction of wages due to their involvement in the investigation of a violation of a workplace violence protection program"
description: "Protects certain employees from a reduction of wages due to their involvement in the investigation of a violation of a workplace violence protection program."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ny"
legislature: "New York Legislature"
session: "2025-2026"
identifier: "S 5254"
citation: "New York S 5254 (2025-2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Christopher Ryan"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 13
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-02-20"
last_action: "2025-09-05"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5fa0614d-ca3f-429b-80db-de98b6c15249"
source_url: "http://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2025/S5254"
source_hash: "992c23b4f844e8b38cc7209385dcf3c3fdd8755996f55f75786589c879f036e4"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ny"]
---

# New York S 5254 (2025-2026) — Protects certain employees from a reduction of wages due to their involvement in the investigation of a violation of a workplace violence protection program

Protects certain employees from a reduction of wages due to their involvement in the investigation of a violation of a workplace violence protection program.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **S5254** (committee substitute) — [source](http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?sh=printbill&bn=S5254&term=2025&Text=Y)

## Votes

- Floor Vote — **61–0** (pass) · upper
- Labor Vote — **13–0** (pass) · upper
- Assembly Vote — **146–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Christopher Ryan — primary (person)
- Cordell Cleare — cosponsor (person)
- Dean Murray — cosponsor (person)
- Julia Salazar — cosponsor (person)
- Lea Webb — cosponsor (person)
- Leroy Comrie — cosponsor (person)
- Nathalia Fernandez — cosponsor (person)
- Robert Jackson — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2025-02-20** REFERRED TO LABOR `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-03** 1ST REPORT CAL.440
- **2025-03-04** 2ND REPORT CAL.
- **2025-03-05** ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
- **2025-03-26** PASSED SENATE `passage`
- **2025-03-26** DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
- **2025-03-26** REFERRED TO LABOR `referral-committee`
- **2025-06-11** SUBSTITUTED FOR A6612
- **2025-06-11** ORDERED TO THIRD READING RULES CAL.621
- **2025-06-11** PASSED ASSEMBLY `passage`
- **2025-06-11** RETURNED TO SENATE
- **2025-09-05** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR `executive-receipt`
- **2025-09-05** SIGNED CHAP.364 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5fa0614d-ca3f-429b-80db-de98b6c15249`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New York legislature records).