Bill Text: NY A08616 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to leave for cancer screening; broadens section to include all types of cancer screening for a period of eight hours.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - referred to governmental employees [A08616 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A08616-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8616
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    September 1, 2017
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        Introduced by M. of A. ABINANTI -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Governmental Employees
        AN  ACT  to amend the civil service law, in relation to leave for cancer
          screening; and repealing certain provisions of such law relating ther-
          eto
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  The section heading and subdivision 1 of section 159-b of
     2  the civil service law, the section heading as amended by chapter 566  of
     3  the laws of 2006 and subdivision 1 as amended by chapter 391 of the laws
     4  of 2008, are amended to read as follows:
     5    Excused  leave to undertake a screening for [breast] cancer. 1.  Every
     6  public officer, employee of this state, employee of any county, employee
     7  of any community college, employee of any public authority, employee  of
     8  any  public  benefit  corporation,  employee of any board of cooperative
     9  educational services (BOCES), employee of any vocational  education  and
    10  extension board, or a school district enumerated in section one of chap-
    11  ter  five hundred sixty-six of the laws of nineteen hundred sixty-seven,
    12  employee of any municipality, employee of any  school  district  or  any
    13  employee  of  a  participating  employer in the New York state and local
    14  employees' retirement system or any employee of a participating employer
    15  in the New York state teachers' retirement system shall be  entitled  to
    16  absent  himself  or  herself and shall be deemed to have a paid leave of
    17  absence from his or her duties or service  as  such  public  officer  or
    18  employee of this state, employee of any county, employee of any communi-
    19  ty  college,  employee  of  any public authority, employee of any public
    20  benefit corporation, employee of any board  of  cooperative  educational
    21  services  (BOCES),  employee  of  any vocational education and extension
    22  board, or a school district enumerated in section one  of  chapter  five
    23  hundred  sixty-six of the laws of nineteen hundred sixty-seven, employee
    24  of any municipality, employee of any school district, or any employee of
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD07269-01-7
        A. 8616                             2
     1  a participating employer in the New  York  state  and  local  employees'
     2  retirement system or any employee of a participating employer in the New
     3  York  state teachers' retirement system for a sufficient period of time,
     4  not  to  exceed  [four]  eight  hours on an annual basis, to undertake a
     5  screening for [breast] cancer.
     6    § 2. Section 159-c of the civil service law is REPEALED.
     7    § 3. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
     8  have become a law.