Bill Text: NY S03152 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
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
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 3152 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN SENATE February 4, 2019 ___________ 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. LBD05204-01-9S. 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.