STATE OF NEW YORK
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3460
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 29, 2019
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Introduced by M. of A. ABINANTI -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Governmental Employees
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:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 159-b of the civil service law, as
2 amended by chapter 465 of the laws of 2017, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 1. Every public officer, employee of this state, employee of any coun-
5 ty, employee of any community college, employee of any public authority,
6 employee of any public benefit corporation, employee of any board of
7 cooperative educational services (BOCES), employee of any vocational
8 education and extension board, or a school district enumerated in
9 section one of chapter five hundred sixty-six of the laws of nineteen
10 hundred sixty-seven, employee of any municipality, employee of any
11 school district or any employee of a participating employer in the New
12 York state and local employees' retirement system or any employee of a
13 participating employer in the New York state teachers' retirement system
14 shall be entitled to absent himself or herself and shall be deemed to
15 have a paid leave of absence from his or her duties or service as such
16 public officer or employee of this state, employee of any county,
17 employee of any community college, employee of any public authority,
18 employee of any public benefit corporation, employee of any board of
19 cooperative educational services (BOCES), employee of any vocational
20 education and extension board, or a school district enumerated in
21 section one of chapter five hundred sixty-six of the laws of nineteen
22 hundred sixty-seven, employee of any municipality, employee of any
23 school district, or any employee of a participating employer in the New
24 York state and local employees' retirement system or any employee of a
25 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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1 for a sufficient period of time, not to exceed [four] eight hours on an
2 annual basis, to undertake a screening for cancer.
3 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
4 have become a law.