S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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3152
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
I N S E N A T E
February 4, 2019
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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
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 159-b of the civil service law, as
amended by chapter 465 of the laws of 2017, is 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
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 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
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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for a sufficient period of time, not to exceed [four] EIGHT hours on an
annual basis, to undertake a screening for cancer.
§ 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
have become a law.