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A 7833: Requires every city or county social services district to provide a wearable or mobile phone-based panic button to each employee whose job responsibilities necessitate direct interaction with clients in a client's home.
What A 7833 does, verified July 15, 2026
The proposed law aims to improve workplace safety for employees working in social services districts. Every city or county social services district must provide a panic button to each employee whose job requires direct interaction with clients in their homes. The panic button can be wearable or mobile phone-based, and employees will bear no cost for the equipment. The panic button must immediately initiate an emergency response by contacting local 9-1-1 or a dedicated monitoring service. It should provide employee location information and result in the dispatch of local law enforcement or emergency services to the employee's location. The districts must develop a plan to ensure employees can receive timely assistance in areas with limited panic button functionality. The Office of Children and Family Services will promulgate rules and regulations to implement the provisions of the law. T…
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Quick answers about A 7833
- What is the current status of A 7833?
- As of July 15, 2026, A 7833 is recorded as "Passed first house": it has passed the chamber it started in and is now before the second chamber. The last recorded action, on June 4, 2026, was "RETURNED TO ASSEMBLY".
- Did A 7833 pass?
- Not yet. A 7833 has passed its house of origin and is now before the second chamber, where it needs committee approval and a floor vote.
- Who wrote A 7833, and where is it now?
- A 7833 was authored by Asm. Dana Levenberg with 12 coauthors.
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| Jun. 04, 2026 | RETURNED TO ASSEMBLY |
| Jun. 04, 2026 | PASSED SENATE |
| Jun. 04, 2026 | 3RD READING CAL.1795 |
| Jun. 04, 2026 | SUBSTITUTED FOR S6987A |
| Jun. 04, 2026 | REFERRED TO RULES |
Latest bill textIntroduced version, April 11, 2025 · 354 words
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 7833 2025-2026 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY April 11, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. LEVENBERG -- read once and referred to the Committee on Social Services AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to providing panic buttons to certain employees of city and county social services districts The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The social services law is amended by adding a new section 2 63 to read as follows: 3 § 63. Workplace safety equipment for social services employees. 1. 4 Every city or county social services district, as constituted by section 5 sixty-one of this title, shall be required to provide a panic button to 6 each employee whose job responsibilities necessitate direct interaction 7 with clients in external settings, including but not limited to a 8 client's home, a hospital or medical facility, a school, a childcare 9 center, a community center, or another location where services are 10 provided. 11 2. Such panic button shall be a wearable or mobile phone-based button. 12 Mobile phone-based panic buttons may only be installed on employer-pro- 13 vided equipment, and wearable and mobile phone-based panic buttons shall 14 not be used to track employee locations except when the panic button is 15 triggered. Employees shall bear no cost for this equipment. 16 3. For the purposes of this section, "panic button" shall mean a phys- 17 ical button that when pressed immediately contacts the local 9-1-1 18 public safety answering point ("PSAP"), provides that PSAP with employee 19 location information, and dispatches local law enforcement to that 20 location. 21 4. The commissioner of the office of children and family services 22 shall promulgate rules and regulations necessary to implement the 23 provisions of this section. 24 § 2. This act shall take effect one year after it shall have become a 25 law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD11369-01-5 Text of A 7833 as introduced, from the official record. Connect Plus keeps every version and highlights what changed.Compare versions