Assembly Actions -
Lowercase Senate Actions - UPPERCASE |
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Oct 21, 2019 |
signed chap.380 |
Oct 11, 2019 |
delivered to governor |
Jun 04, 2019 |
returned to senate passed assembly ordered to third reading cal.518 substituted for a5424 |
Jun 04, 2019 |
substituted by s748 |
May 30, 2019 |
advanced to third reading cal.518 reported |
Feb 12, 2019 |
referred to judiciary |
Assembly Bill A5424
Signed By Governor2019-2020 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
CRESPO
Archive: Last Bill Status Via S748 - Signed by Governor
- 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
Votes
co-Sponsors
Michaelle C. Solages
Anthony D'Urso
Victor M. Pichardo
Rebecca Seawright
multi-Sponsors
Didi Barrett
Michael Blake
Edward Braunstein
Maritza Davila
2019-A5424 (ACTIVE) - Details
2019-A5424 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 5424 2019-2020 Regular Sessions I N A S S E M B L Y February 12, 2019 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. CRESPO -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. BARRETT, BLAKE, BRAUNSTEIN, DAVILA, HEVESI, HYNDMAN, JAFFEE, JEAN-PIERRE, JOYNER, RAIA, SIMON, SIMOTAS, STECK -- read once and referred to the Committee on Judiciary AN ACT to amend the judiciary law, in relation to providing an exemption from jury duty for breastfeeding women THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Paragraphs 1 and 2 of subdivision (a) of section 517 of the judiciary law, paragraph 1 as amended and paragraph 2 as added by chap- ter 86 of the laws of 1995, are amended to read as follows: (1) Except as otherwise provided in paragraph two of this subdivision, the commissioner of jurors may, in his or her discretion, on the appli- cation of a prospective juror who has been summoned to attend, excuse such prospective juror from a part or the whole of the time of jury service or may postpone the time of jury service to a later day during the same or any subsequent term of the court, PROVIDED THAT IF THE PROSPECTIVE JUROR IS A BREASTFEEDING MOTHER AND SUBMITS WITH HER APPLI- CATION A NOTE FROM A PHYSICIAN INDICATING THAT THE PROSPECTIVE JUROR IS BREASTFEEDING, THE COMMISSIONER SHALL EXCUSE THE PROSPECTIVE JUROR OR POSTPONE THE TIME OF JURY SERVICE. The application shall be presented to the commissioner at such time and in such manner as he or she shall require, except that an application for postponement of the initial date for jury service may be made by telephone. (2) An application for postponement of jury service shall be granted hereunder provided: (i) such service has not already been postponed or excused, (ii) the application is made at such time and in such manner as the commissioner of jurors requires, and (iii) the postponement is to a date certain when the court is in session not more than six months after the date on which such service otherwise is to commence and such date is selected by the prospective juror, PROVIDED THAT IF THE PROSPECTIVE EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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