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Assembly Bill A8981

Signed By Governor

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to the severability of certain provisions

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2019-A8981 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S7197
Law Section:
Labor Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §203-e, Lab L (as proposed in S.660 & A.584)

2019-A8981 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Makes certain provisions related to prohibition of discrimination based on an employee's or a dependent's reproductive health decision making severable.

2019-A8981 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8981
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              January 7, 2020
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. JAFFEE -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Labor
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the  labor  law,  in relation to the severability of
   certain provisions
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Section  203-e of the labor law, as added by a chapter of
 the laws of 2019, amending the  labor  law  relating  to  discrimination
 based  on  an  employee's  or a dependent's reproductive health decision
 making, as proposed in legislative bill numbers S. 660 and  A.  584,  is
 amended by adding a new subdivision 7 to read as follows:
   7.  IF  ANY WORD, PHRASE, CLAUSE, SENTENCE, PARAGRAPH, SUBDIVISION, OR
 PART OF THIS SECTION OR THE APPLICATION THEREOF TO ANY PERSON OR CIRCUM-
 STANCES SHALL, FOR ANY REASON, BE ADJUDGED BY  ANY  COURT  OF  COMPETENT
 JURISDICTION  TO  BE INVALID, SUCH JUDGMENT SHALL NOT AFFECT, IMPAIR, OR
 INVALIDATE THE REMAINDER THEREOF, AND THE APPLICATION THEREOF  TO  OTHER
 PERSONS  OR CIRCUMSTANCES, BUT SHALL BE CONFINED IN ITS OPERATION TO THE
 WORD, PHRASE, CLAUSE, SENTENCE, PARAGRAPH, SUBDIVISION, OR PART  THEREOF
 DIRECTLY  INVOLVED  IN THE CONTROVERSY IN WHICH SUCH JUDGMENT SHALL HAVE
 BEEN RENDERED AND TO THE PERSON OR CIRCUMSTANCES INVOLVED. IT IS  HEREBY
 DECLARED  TO  BE  THE  INTENT OF THE LEGISLATURE THAT THIS SECTION WOULD
 HAVE BEEN ENACTED EVEN IF SUCH INVALID PROVISIONS HAD NOT BEEN  INCLUDED
 HEREIN.
   §  2.  This  act  shall  take  effect on the same date and in the same
 manner as a chapter of the laws of 2019, amending the labor law relating
 to discrimination based on an employee's or a  dependent's  reproductive
 health  decision  making, as proposed in legislative bill numbers S. 660
 and A. 584, takes effect.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD02778-07-0

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