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Senate Bill S6318
2011-2012 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
(R, C) Senate District
Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Labor Committee
- Introduced
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- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
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- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
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- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- Delivered to Governor
- Signed By Governor
Actions
2011-S6318 (ACTIVE) - Details
2011-S6318 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo
BILL NUMBER:S6318
TITLE OF BILL:
An act
to amend the labor law, in relation to leave for organ or bone marrow
donation granted to state employees
PURPOSE:
To extend the scope of Chapter 214 of the Laws of2001 to include state
workers who made an organ or bone marrow donation up to one year
prior to August 29, 2001.
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:
Section 202-b of the Labor Law is amended by adding a new subdivision
4. The provision requires retroactive eligibility for up to one year
prior within the context of the section, which permits state
employees to take up to seven days paid leave for bone marrow
donation and 30 days paid leave for organ donation.
JUSTIFICATION:
In 2001, the Governor signed legislation into law permitting state
employees to take up to seven days paid leave for bone marrow
donation and 30 days paid leave for organ donation. Upon learning of
the probability that such legislation would be proposed and favorably
considered, many state workers who were already scheduled for such
transplants expressed a desire to postpone the procedure in order to
2011-S6318 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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6318
I N S E N A T E
January 25, 2012
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Introduced by Sen. LARKIN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Labor
AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to leave for organ or bone
marrow donation granted to state employees
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Section 202-b of the labor law is amended by adding a new
subdivision 4 to read as follows:
4. THE PROVISIONS OF THIS SECTION SHALL APPLY RETROACTIVELY TO ANY
EMPLOYEE THAT HAS MADE A BONE MARROW OR ORGAN DONATION NO MORE THAN ONE
YEAR PRIOR TO AUGUST TWENTY-NINTH, TWO THOUSAND ONE.
S 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall be deemed to be
in full force and effect as of August 29, 2001.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD01153-01-1
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