Bill Text: NY A05432 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Authorizes minors who are 14 or older and are active members of a religious community to engage or assist in employment which such minors are otherwise prohibited from performing; requires such minors to be supervised by an adult member of such religious community.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 4-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-07-15 - held for consideration in labor [A05432 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A05432-Introduced.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                          5432
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 12, 2019
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by M. of A. GOODELL, DiPIETRO -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of
          A. MORINELLO, WALSH -- read once and  referred  to  the  Committee  on
          Labor
        AN  ACT  to amend the labor law, in relation to authorizing minors four-
          teen years of age or older, working as part of a  religious  community
          of  which  they  are  a member, to be employed in or assist in certain
          activities
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Section  131  of the labor law is amended by adding a new
     2  subdivision 7 to read as follows:
     3    7. Nothing in this section shall be deemed to prohibit the  employment
     4  of  or  assistance in employment by a minor fourteen or fifteen years of
     5  age who is the member of a religious community as provided in  paragraph
     6  c of subdivision three of section one hundred thirty-three of this arti-
     7  cle.
     8    §  2. Section 132 of the labor law is amended by adding a new subdivi-
     9  sion 6 to read as follows:
    10    6. Nothing in this section shall be deemed to prohibit the  employment
    11  of  or assistance in employment by a minor sixteen or seventeen years of
    12  age who is the member of a religious community as provided in  paragraph
    13  c of subdivision three of section one hundred thirty-three of this arti-
    14  cle.
    15    §  3.  Subdivision  3  of  section  133 of the labor law is amended by
    16  adding a new paragraph c to read as follows:
    17    c. The provisions of subdivision two of this section shall  not  apply
    18  to any minor fourteen years of age or older, when such minor is employed
    19  by  or assists in the employment of a religious community, of which such
    20  minor is an active member; provided, however, that at  all  times  while
    21  such a minor is engaged or assisting in otherwise prohibited employment,
    22  he  or  she shall be under the supervision of a person eighteen years of
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD09285-01-9

        A. 5432                             2
     1  age or older who is an active member of the same religious community  as
     2  the  supervised  minor.    An affidavit signed by the parent, parents or
     3  guardian of such a minor, stating that such parent, parents or  guardian
     4  hold the genuine and sincere religious beliefs of the religious communi-
     5  ty  and  that  the minor is an active member of such religious community
     6  shall constitute proof that such minor may be so employed or  assist  in
     7  such  employment.  The parent, parents or guardian shall not be required
     8  to specify or elaborate on the nature, genuineness or sincerity  of  the
     9  religious belief or be subject to any further inquiry.
    10    § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.
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