republic-os/legislation/us/states/ny/2023-2024/a-8947.md

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Bill	Establishes the retail worker safety act requiring retail worker employers to develop and implement programs to prevent workplace violence	Establishes the retail worker safety act requiring retail worker employers to develop and implement programs to prevent workplace violence; directs the department of labor to produce a model workplace violence prevention training program; requires employers to provide training on such programs; requires the installation of panic buttons at certain workplaces or wearable or mobile phone-based panic buttons to be provided.	us/states/ny	New York Legislature	2023-2024	A 8947	New York A 8947 (2023-2024)	bill		enacted	Karines Reyes	4	20	2	2024-01-30	2024-09-05	openstates	ocd-bill/5abfbdf3-35b6-446a-a202-47f63aa58c5f	http://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2023/A8947	c22070c517c431e11c00dcfde3f0337d711d7a07c267955eebbac2bff987d734	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ny

New York A 8947 (2023-2024) — Establishes the retail worker safety act requiring retail worker employers to develop and implement programs to prevent workplace violence

Establishes the retail worker safety act requiring retail worker employers to develop and implement programs to prevent workplace violence; directs the department of labor to produce a model workplace violence prevention training program; requires employers to provide training on such programs; requires the installation of panic buttons at certain workplaces or wearable or mobile phone-based panic buttons to be provided.

Version chain

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

1. A8947 (committee substitute) — source
2. A8947A (committee substitute) — source
3. A8947B (committee substitute) — source
4. A8947C (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Floor Vote - Version: C — 41–19 (pass) · upper
• Assembly Vote — 102–43 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Karines Reyes — primary (person)
• Al Taylor — cosponsor (person)
• Alex Bores — cosponsor (person)
• Andrew Hevesi — cosponsor (person)
• Anna Kelles — cosponsor (person)
• Brian Cunningham — cosponsor (person)
• Catalina Cruz — cosponsor (person)
• Charles Lavine — cosponsor (person)
• Chris Burdick — cosponsor (person)
• Dana Levenberg — cosponsor (person)
• David Weprin — cosponsor (person)
• Eddie Gibbs — cosponsor (person)
• Emily Gallagher — cosponsor (person)
• Harvey Epstein — cosponsor (person)
• Jessica Gonzalez-Rojas — cosponsor (person)
• Jo Anne Simon — cosponsor (person)
• Jonathan Jacobson — cosponsor (person)
• Juan Ardila — cosponsor (person)
• Kenny Burgos — cosponsor (person)
• Kimberly Jean-Pierre — cosponsor (person)
• Linda Rosenthal — cosponsor (person)
• MaryJane Shimsky — cosponsor (person)
• Michaelle C. Solages — cosponsor (person)
• Phara Souffrant Forrest — cosponsor (person)
• Phil Steck — cosponsor (person)
• Robert C. Carroll — cosponsor (person)
• Ron Kim — cosponsor (person)
• Sarah Clark — cosponsor (person)
• Sarahana Shrestha — cosponsor (person)
• Stacey Pheffer Amato — cosponsor (person)
• Stefani Zinerman — cosponsor (person)
• Steven Otis — cosponsor (person)
• Steven Raga — cosponsor (person)
• Taylor Darling — cosponsor (person)
• Tony Simone — cosponsor (person)
• William Colton — cosponsor (person)
• Yudelka Tapia — cosponsor (person)
• Zohran Mamdani — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-30 REFERRED TO LABOR referral-committee
• 2024-03-15 AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO LABOR amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2024-03-15 PRINT NUMBER 8947A amendment-passage
• 2024-03-19 REPORTED REFERRED TO CODES referral-committee
• 2024-03-21 AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO CODES amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2024-03-21 PRINT NUMBER 8947B amendment-passage
• 2024-05-07 REPORTED REFERRED TO WAYS AND MEANS referral-committee
• 2024-05-07 REPORTED
• 2024-05-09 ADVANCED TO THIRD READING CAL.468
• 2024-05-21 AMENDED ON THIRD READING 8947C amendment-passage
• 2024-06-03 PASSED ASSEMBLY passage
• 2024-06-03 DELIVERED TO SENATE
• 2024-06-03 REFERRED TO RULES referral-committee
• 2024-06-07 SUBSTITUTED FOR S8358C
• 2024-06-07 3RD READING CAL.1055
• 2024-06-07 PASSED SENATE passage
• 2024-06-07 RETURNED TO ASSEMBLY
• 2024-09-05 DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR executive-receipt
• 2024-09-05 SIGNED CHAP.308 executive-signature
• 2024-09-05 APPROVAL MEMO.6

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/5abfbdf3-35b6-446a-a202-47f63aa58c5f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New York legislature records).