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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                           748
 
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                    IN SENATE
 
                                       (Prefiled)
 
                                     January 9, 2019
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by Sens. MONTGOMERY, COMRIE -- read twice and ordered print-
          ed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Judiciary
 
        AN ACT to amend the judiciary law, in relation to providing an exemption
          from jury duty for breastfeeding women

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section 1. Paragraphs 1 and 2 of subdivision (a) of section 517 of the
     2  judiciary  law, paragraph 1 as amended and paragraph 2 as added by chap-
     3  ter 86 of the laws of 1995, are amended to read as follows:
     4    (1) Except as otherwise provided in paragraph two of this subdivision,
     5  the commissioner of jurors may, in his or her discretion, on the  appli-
     6  cation  of  a  prospective juror who has been summoned to attend, excuse
     7  such prospective juror from a part or the whole  of  the  time  of  jury
     8  service  or  may postpone the time of jury service to a later day during
     9  the same or any subsequent term  of  the  court, provided  that  if  the
    10  prospective  juror is a breastfeeding mother and submits with her appli-
    11  cation a note from a physician indicating that the prospective juror  is
    12  breastfeeding,  the  commissioner  shall excuse the prospective juror or
    13  postpone the time of jury service. The application shall be presented to
    14  the commissioner at such time and in such manner  as  he  or  she  shall
    15  require, except that an application for postponement of the initial date
    16  for jury service may be made by telephone.
    17    (2)  An  application for postponement of jury service shall be granted
    18  hereunder provided: (i) such service has not already been  postponed  or
    19  excused, (ii) the application is made at such time and in such manner as
    20  the  commissioner of jurors requires, and (iii) the postponement is to a
    21  date certain when the court is in session not more than six months after
    22  the date on which such service otherwise is to commence and such date is
    23  selected by the prospective  juror, provided  that  if  the  prospective
    24  juror  is  a  breastfeeding  mother, the postponement date may be a date
    25  certain up to two years after the date on which such  service  otherwise
    26  is to commence.
    27    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03064-01-9