Bill Text: NY A08981 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Makes certain provisions related to prohibition of discrimination based on an employee's or a dependent's reproductive health decision making severable.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2020-04-17 - SIGNED CHAP.85 [A08981 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A08981-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          8981

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     January 7, 2020
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. JAFFEE -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Labor

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  labor  law,  in relation to the severability of
          certain provisions

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

     1    Section  1.  Section  203-e of the labor law, as added by a chapter of
     2  the laws of 2019, amending the  labor  law  relating  to  discrimination
     3  based  on  an  employee's  or a dependent's reproductive health decision
     4  making, as proposed in legislative bill numbers S. 660 and  A.  584,  is
     5  amended by adding a new subdivision 7 to read as follows:
     6    7.  If  any word, phrase, clause, sentence, paragraph, subdivision, or
     7  part of this section or the application thereof to any person or circum-
     8  stances shall, for any reason, be adjudged by  any  court  of  competent
     9  jurisdiction  to  be invalid, such judgment shall not affect, impair, or
    10  invalidate the remainder thereof, and the application thereof  to  other
    11  persons  or circumstances, but shall be confined in its operation to the
    12  word, phrase, clause, sentence, paragraph, subdivision, or part  thereof
    13  directly  involved  in the controversy in which such judgment shall have
    14  been rendered and to the person or circumstances involved. It is  hereby
    15  declared  to  be  the  intent of the legislature that this section would
    16  have been enacted even if such invalid provisions had not been  included
    17  herein.
    18    §  2.  This  act  shall  take  effect on the same date and in the same
    19  manner as a chapter of the laws of 2019, amending the labor law relating
    20  to discrimination based on an employee's or a  dependent's  reproductive
    21  health  decision  making, as proposed in legislative bill numbers S. 660
    22  and A. 584, takes effect.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD02778-07-0