Bill Text: NY A08563 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Relates to excused absence of a public employee for mental health purposes.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to governmental employees [A08563 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A08563-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          8563

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                   September 13, 2019
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  FERNANDEZ  --  read once and referred to the
          Committee on Governmental Employees

        AN ACT to amend the civil service law, in relation to excused absence of
          a public employee for mental health purposes

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.  The  civil service law is amended by adding a new section
     2  159-c to read as follows:
     3    § 159-c. Excused leave for  mental  or  behavioral  health.  1.  Every
     4  public officer, employee of this state, employee of any county, employee
     5  of  any community college, employee of any public authority, employee of
     6  any public benefit corporation, employee of  any  board  of  cooperative
     7  educational  services  (BOCES), employee of any vocational education and
     8  extension board, or a school district enumerated in section one of chap-
     9  ter five hundred sixty-six of the laws of nineteen hundred  sixty-seven,
    10  employee  of  any  municipality,  employee  of  any school district, any
    11  employee of a participating employer in the New  York  state  and  local
    12  employees' retirement system or any employee of a participating employer
    13  in  the  New York state teachers' retirement system shall be entitled to
    14  absent himself or herself and shall be deemed to have a  paid  leave  of
    15  absence  from  his  or  her  duties  or  service as such public officer,
    16  employee of this state, employee of any county, employee of any communi-
    17  ty college, employee of any public authority,  employee  of  any  public
    18  benefit  corporation,  employee  of any board of cooperative educational
    19  services (BOCES), employee of any  vocational  education  and  extension
    20  board,  or  a  school district enumerated in section one of chapter five
    21  hundred sixty-six of the laws of nineteen hundred sixty-seven,  employee
    22  of  any municipality, employee of any school district, any employee of a
    23  participating employer in  the  New  York  state  and  local  employees'
    24  retirement system or any employee of a participating employer in the New

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13639-02-9

        A. 8563                             2

     1  York  state  teachers'  retirement  system  for the purpose of mental or
     2  behavioral health.
     3    2.  Absence  for  the  mental  or  behavioral  health pursuant to this
     4  section shall not be charged to the sick time allotted for such  employ-
     5  ee.
     6    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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