STATE OF NEW YORK
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5735
2011-2012 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 28, 2011
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Introduced by M. of A. ABBATE -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Governmental Employees
AN ACT to amend the civil service law, in relation to leave for cancer
screening; and repealing certain provisions of such law relating ther-
eto
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The section heading and subdivision 1 of section 159-b of
2 the civil service law, the section heading as amended by chapter 566 of
3 the laws of 2006 and subdivision 1 as amended by chapter 391 of the laws
4 of 2008, are amended to read as follows:
5 Excused leave to undertake a screening for [breast] cancer. 1. Every
6 public officer, employee of this state, employee of any county, employee
7 of any community college, employee of any public authority, employee of
8 any public benefit corporation, employee of any board of cooperative
9 educational services (BOCES), employee of any vocational education and
10 extension board, or a school district enumerated in section one of chap-
11 ter five hundred sixty-six of the laws of nineteen hundred sixty-seven,
12 employee of any municipality, employee of any school district or any
13 employee of a participating employer in the New York state and local
14 employees' retirement system or any employee of a participating employer
15 in the New York state teachers' retirement system shall be entitled to
16 absent himself or herself and shall be deemed to have a paid leave of
17 absence from his or her duties or service as such public officer or
18 employee of this state, employee of any county, employee of any communi-
19 ty college, employee of any public authority, employee of any public
20 benefit corporation, employee of any board of cooperative educational
21 services (BOCES), employee of any vocational education and extension
22 board, or a school district enumerated in section one of chapter five
23 hundred sixty-six of the laws of nineteen hundred sixty-seven, employee
24 of any municipality, employee of any school district, or any employee of
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 a participating employer in the New York state and local employees'
2 retirement system or any employee of a participating employer in the New
3 York state teachers' retirement system for a sufficient period of time,
4 not to exceed [four] eight hours on an annual basis, to undertake a
5 screening for [breast] cancer.
6 § 2. Section 159-c of the civil service law is REPEALED.
7 § 3. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
8 have become a law.
