STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 4505 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN SENATE February 16, 2017 ___________ Introduced by Sen. SANDERS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Finance 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-c 2 to read as follows: 3 § 845-c. 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. LBD02192-01-7