Bill Text: NY A05452 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to providing minimum standards governing maternity policy for institutions employing police officers and correctional officers including uniform and/or equipment modifications, exemption from firearm qualification requirements, and ensuring there is no discrimination or poor treatment of pregnant individuals.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - referred to governmental operations [A05452 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A05452-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5452

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 16, 2021
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        Introduced by M. of A. WALKER -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Governmental Operations

        AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to maternity policies for
          police officers and correctional officers

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. The executive law is amended by adding a new section  845-e
     2  to read as follows:
     3    §  845-e.  Maternity  policy. Any entity employing a police officer of
     4  the state or a municipality, or a correctional officer, shall  adopt  or
     5  revise  maternity  leave policies to conform with the following require-
     6  ments:
     7    (a) ensure against discrimination on the basis  of  pregnancy,  child-
     8  birth, or any related medical condition;
     9    (b)  provide  that  such  officers  are treated in the same fashion as
    10  temporarily disabled officers during pregnancy;
    11    (c) provide for procedures to  modify  full-duty  assignments  and  to
    12  provide  temporary,  light-duty assignments, if and when medically indi-
    13  cated, consistent with the operational  requirements  of  the  employing
    14  entity, and that take into consideration any specific restrictions iden-
    15  tified by a pregnant officer's physician;
    16    (d)  exempt  such  officers  from  firearms qualification requirements
    17  during pregnancy; and
    18    (e) provide for all practicable  uniform  and/or  equipment  modifica-
    19  tions, as may be necessary.
    20    §  2.  This  act  shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
    21  have become a law.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD04276-01-1