Bill Text: NY S03152 | 2019-2020 | 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 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-02-26 - REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE [S03152 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S03152-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3152
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    February 4, 2019
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        Introduced  by  Sen. ADDABBO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Civil Service and Pensions
        AN ACT to amend the civil service law, in relation to leave  for  cancer
          screening
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 159-b of the civil service law, as
     2  amended by chapter 465 of the laws  of  2017,  is  amended  to  read  as
     3  follows:
     4    1. Every public officer, employee of this state, employee of any coun-
     5  ty, employee of any community college, employee of any public authority,
     6  employee  of  any  public  benefit corporation, employee of any board of
     7  cooperative educational services (BOCES),  employee  of  any  vocational
     8  education  and  extension  board,  or  a  school  district enumerated in
     9  section one of chapter five hundred sixty-six of the  laws  of  nineteen
    10  hundred  sixty-seven,  employee  of  any  municipality,  employee of any
    11  school district or any employee of a participating employer in  the  New
    12  York  state  and local employees' retirement system or any employee of a
    13  participating employer in the New York state teachers' retirement system
    14  shall be entitled to absent himself or herself and shall  be  deemed  to
    15  have  a  paid leave of absence from his or her duties or service as such
    16  public officer or employee  of  this  state,  employee  of  any  county,
    17  employee  of  any  community  college, employee of any public authority,
    18  employee of any public benefit corporation, employee  of  any  board  of
    19  cooperative  educational  services  (BOCES),  employee of any vocational
    20  education and extension  board,  or  a  school  district  enumerated  in
    21  section  one  of  chapter five hundred sixty-six of the laws of nineteen
    22  hundred sixty-seven, employee  of  any  municipality,  employee  of  any
    23  school  district, or any employee of a participating employer in the New
    24  York state and local employees' retirement system or any employee  of  a
    25  participating employer in the New York state teachers' retirement system
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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        S. 3152                             2
     1  for  a sufficient period of time, not to exceed [four] eight hours on an
     2  annual basis, to undertake a screening for cancer.
     3    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
     4  have become a law.