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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                         907--A
 
                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                    IN SENATE
 
                                       (Prefiled)
 
                                     January 6, 2021
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by  Sen. SANDERS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Civil Service and Pensions
          -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered  reprinted  as  amended
          and recommitted to said committee

        AN ACT to amend the civil service law, in relation to permitting employ-
          ees of the state to be excused from work to donate blood
 
          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-d to read as follows:
     3    §  159-d.  Excused  leave  to donate blood. 1. Every public officer or
     4  employee of this state shall be entitled to absent  himself  or  herself
     5  and shall be deemed to have a leave of absence from his or her duties or
     6  service  as  such public officer or employee of this state, for a suffi-
     7  cient period of time, not to exceed four hours on an  annual  basis,  to
     8  donate blood.
     9    2. A supervisor of any such public officer or employee may require the
    10  public  officer  or  employee  to  provide written substantiation from a
    11  donation center or entity coordinating donations that the public officer
    12  or employee actually donated blood during the excused absence.
    13    3. The entire period of the leave of absence granted pursuant to  this
    14  section  shall  be  excused  leave  and shall not be charged against any
    15  other leave such public officer or employee of this state  is  otherwise
    16  entitled to.
    17    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05511-03-1