Bill Text: NY A05958 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 5958 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Entitles employees 45 years of age or older to take one day off every ten years to undergo a colonoscopy.

Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 14-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to labor [A05958 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A05958-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                          5958
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 20, 2019
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  PAULIN, BRONSON, COLTON, CRUZ, M. G. MILLER,
          SIMON, BUCHWALD, GRIFFIN, GOTTFRIED, JAFFEE,  SAYEGH,  ASHBY  --  read
          once and referred to the Committee on Labor
        AN  ACT  to amend the labor law, in relation to providing employees with
          one day off every ten years to undergo a colonoscopy
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  This  act  shall  be  known and may be cited as "45 saves
     2  lives".
     3    § 2. The labor law is amended by adding a new section 202-n to read as
     4  follows:
     5    § 202-n. Leave of absence for colonoscopies. 1. For  the  purposes  of
     6  this section, the following terms shall have the following meanings:
     7    (a)  "Employee"  means  a person who performs services for hire for an
     8  employer, for an average of twenty or more hours per week, and  includes
     9  all  individuals  employed  at any site owned or operated by an employer
    10  but shall not include an independent contractor.
    11    (b) "Employer" means a person or entity that employs  twenty  or  more
    12  employees  at at least one site and includes an individual, corporation,
    13  partnership, association,  nonprofit  organization,  group  of  persons,
    14  state,  county,  town,  city, school district, public authority or other
    15  governmental subdivision of any kind.
    16    2. An employer shall grant one day of leave of absence every ten years
    17  to all employees forty-five years of age or  older  in  order  for  such
    18  employee to undergo a colonoscopy.
    19    3.  An employer shall not retaliate against an employee for requesting
    20  or obtaining a leave of absence authorized pursuant to this section.
    21    4. This section shall not affect an employee's rights with respect  to
    22  any other employee benefit otherwise provided by law.
    23    §  3.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
    24  become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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