Bill Text: NY S01972 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to providing minimum standards governing maternity policy for institutions employing police officers and correctional officers including uniform and/or equipment modifications, exemption from firearm qualification requirements, and ensuring there is no discrimination or poor treatment of pregnant individuals.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO FINANCE [S01972 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S01972-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1972
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    January 18, 2019
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        Introduced  by  Sen. SANDERS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Finance
        AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to maternity policies for
          police officers and correctional officers
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1. The executive law is amended by adding a new section 845-c
     2  to read as follows:
     3    § 845-c. Maternity policy. Any entity employing a  police  officer  of
     4  the  state  or a municipality, or a correctional officer, shall adopt or
     5  revise maternity leave policies to conform with the  following  require-
     6  ments:
     7    (a)  ensure  against  discrimination on the basis of pregnancy, child-
     8  birth, or any related medical condition;
     9    (b) provide that such officers are treated  in  the  same  fashion  as
    10  temporarily disabled officers during pregnancy;
    11    (c)  provide  for  procedures  to  modify full-duty assignments and to
    12  provide temporary, light-duty assignments, if and when  medically  indi-
    13  cated,  consistent  with  the  operational requirements of the employing
    14  entity, and that take into consideration any specific restrictions iden-
    15  tified by a pregnant officer's physician;
    16    (d) exempt such  officers  from  firearms  qualification  requirements
    17  during pregnancy; and
    18    (e)  provide  for  all  practicable uniform and/or equipment modifica-
    19  tions, as may be necessary.
    20    § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth  day  after  it  shall
    21  have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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