Bill Text: NY A05975 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Amends the definition of pregnancy-related condition to include lactation as a possible way of determining if an individual possesses such condition.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2019-09-13 - signed chap.271 [A05975 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-A05975-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5975 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY February 22, 2019 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. REYES -- read once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to amending the defi- nition of pregnancy-related condition The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 21-f of section 292 of the executive law, as 2 added by chapter 369 of the laws of 2015, is amended to read as follows: 3 21-f. The term "pregnancy-related condition" means a medical condition 4 related to pregnancy or childbirth that inhibits the exercise of a 5 normal bodily function or is demonstrable by medically accepted clinical 6 or laboratory diagnostic techniques, including but not limited to lacta- 7 tion; provided, however, that in all provisions of this article dealing 8 with employment, the term shall be limited to conditions which, upon the 9 provision of reasonable accommodations, do not prevent the complainant 10 from performing in a reasonable manner the activities involved in the 11 job or occupation sought or held; and provided further, however, that 12 pregnancy-related conditions shall be treated as temporary disabilities 13 for the purposes of this article. 14 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD10164-01-9
