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