Bill Text: NY S02190 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to excused absence of a public employee for mental health purposes.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO CIVIL SERVICE AND PENSIONS [S02190 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S02190-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2190

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 19, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced by Sens. BAILEY, FERNANDEZ -- read twice and ordered printed,
          and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Civil Service and
          Pensions

        AN ACT to amend the civil service law, in relation to excused absence of
          a public employee for mental health purposes

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

     1    Section 1. The civil service law is amended by adding  a  new  section
     2  159-e to read as follows:
     3    §  159-e.  Excused  leave  for  mental  or behavioral health. 1. Every
     4  public officer, employee of this state, employee of any county, employee
     5  of any community college, employee of any public authority, employee  of
     6  any  public  benefit  corporation,  employee of any board of cooperative
     7  educational services (BOCES), employee of any vocational  education  and
     8  extension board, or a school district enumerated in section one of chap-
     9  ter  five hundred sixty-six of the laws of nineteen hundred sixty-seven,
    10  employee of any municipality,  employee  of  any  school  district,  any
    11  employee  of  a  participating  employer in the New York state and local
    12  employees' retirement system or any employee of a participating employer
    13  in the New York state teachers' retirement system shall be  entitled  to
    14  absent  himself  or  herself and shall be deemed to have a paid leave of
    15  absence from his or her  duties  or  service  as  such  public  officer,
    16  employee of this state, employee of any county, employee of any communi-
    17  ty  college,  employee  of  any public authority, employee of any public
    18  benefit corporation, employee of any board  of  cooperative  educational
    19  services  (BOCES),  employee  of  any vocational education and extension
    20  board, or a school district enumerated in section one  of  chapter  five
    21  hundred  sixty-six of the laws of nineteen hundred sixty-seven, employee
    22  of any municipality, employee of any school district, any employee of  a
    23  participating  employer  in  the  New  York  state  and local employees'
    24  retirement system or any employee of a participating employer in the New

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05526-01-3
        S. 2190                             2

     1  York state teachers' retirement system for  the  purpose  of  mental  or
     2  behavioral health.
     3    2.  Absence  for  the  mental  or  behavioral  health pursuant to this
     4  section shall not be charged to the sick time allotted for such  employ-
     5  ee.
     6    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.