Bill Text: NY S04922 | 2011-2012 | 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) 2012-01-04 - REFERRED TO CIVIL SERVICE AND PENSIONS [S04922 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-S04922-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         4922
                              2011-2012 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                    April 29, 2011
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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; 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.
                                                                  LBD09547-01-1
       S. 4922                             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    S 2. Section 159-c of the civil service law is REPEALED.
    7    S 3. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
    8  have become a law.