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Assembly Bill A8460

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Excludes employees who do not work year round or work seasonally from provisions relating to breast cancer and prostate cancer screenings

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2009-A8460 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Governmental Employees
Law Section:
Civil Service Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยงยง159-b & 159-c, Civ Serv L

2009-A8460 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Excludes employees who do not work year round or work seasonally from provisions relating to breast cancer and prostate cancer screenings, except in the case of a medical emergency.

2009-A8460 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  8460

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                              May 21, 2009
                               ___________

Introduced by M. of A. FIELDS -- read once and referred to the Committee
  on Governmental Employees

AN  ACT to amend the civil service law, in relation to excluding employ-
  ees who do not work year round  or  work  seasonally  from  provisions
  relating to breast cancer and prostate cancer screenings

  THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1. Subdivisions 1 and 2 of section 159-b of the civil  service
law,  as amended by chapter 391 of the laws of 2008, are amended to read
as follows:
  1. Every public officer, employee of this state, employee of any coun-
ty, employee of any community college, employee of any public authority,
employee of any public benefit corporation, employee  of  any  board  of
cooperative  educational  services  (BOCES),  employee of any vocational
education and extension  board,  or  a  school  district  enumerated  in
section  one  of  chapter five hundred sixty-six of the laws of nineteen
hundred sixty-seven, employee  of  any  municipality,  employee  of  any
school  district  or any employee of a participating employer in the New
York state and local employees' retirement system or any employee  of  a
participating  employer  in  the  New  York  state  teachers' retirement
system,  EXCLUDING  EMPLOYEES  WHO  DO  NOT  WORK  YEAR  ROUND  OR  WORK
SEASONALLY, EXCEPT IN THE CASE OF A MEDICAL EMERGENCY, shall be entitled
to absent himself or herself and shall be deemed to have a paid leave of
absence  from  his  or  her  duties or service as such public officer or
employee of this state, employee of any county, employee of any communi-
ty college, employee of any public authority,  employee  of  any  public
benefit  corporation,  employee  of any board of cooperative educational
services (BOCES), employee of any  vocational  education  and  extension
board,  or  a  school district enumerated in section one of chapter five
hundred sixty-six of the laws of nineteen hundred sixty-seven,  employee
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.
                                                           LBD11914-01-9

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