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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         7111--B
 
                    IN SENATE
 
                                     April 28, 2014
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by Sen. GRISANTI -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be  committed  to  the  Committee  on  Labor  --  committee
          discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
          to  said  committee  --  committee  discharged,  bill amended, ordered
          reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
 

        AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation  to  authorized  absences  by
          members  of  volunteer fire departments and volunteer ambulance squads
          who respond to states of emergency
 
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section  1.  The labor law is amended by adding a new section 202-l to
     2  read as follows:
     3    § 202-l. Leave of  absence  for  volunteer  emergency  responders.  1.
     4  During the time that an emergency exists following a declaration of such
     5  emergency  pursuant to section twenty-four or twenty-eight of the execu-
     6  tive law, an employee may request  and  shall  be  granted  a  leave  of
     7  absence from his or her employer while engaged in the actual performance

     8  of his or her duties as, (a) a volunteer firefighter, or (b) an enrolled
     9  member  of  a  volunteer ambulance service pursuant to article thirty of
    10  the public health law unless the employer determines that the employee's
    11  absence would impose an undue hardship on the conduct of the  employer's
    12  business  as  defined by paragraph (d) of subdivision ten of section two
    13  hundred ninety-six of the executive law.
    14    2. Subdivision one of this section shall apply only when:
    15    (a) The employer has previously received  written  documentation  from
    16  the  head  of  the  employee's  fire  department  or volunteer ambulance
    17  service, as applicable, notifying the employer of the employee's  status
    18  as  a  volunteer firefighter or member of a volunteer ambulance service;

    19  or
    20    (b) The employee's duties as a volunteer firefighter or  member  of  a
    21  volunteer ambulance service are related to the declared emergency.
    22    3. The entire period of the authorized leave of absence granted pursu-
    23  ant  to  this section shall either be unpaid excused leave for employees
    24  who are subject to the overtime provisions of this chapter, the  federal
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD04717-04-4
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     1  fair  labor standards act and regulations promulgated thereunder, or may

     2  otherwise be charged against any other leave to which such  employee  is
     3  entitled, as determined by the employee.
     4    4.  Upon  the  employer's  request, an employee who has been granted a
     5  leave of absence in accordance with this section shall  provide  his  or
     6  her  employer  with a notarized statement from the head of the volunteer
     7  fire department or volunteer ambulance service, as applicable,  certify-
     8  ing  the  period  of time, or times, that said employee responded to any
     9  emergency pursuant to this section.
    10    5. Nothing set forth in this section shall  be  construed  to  impede,
    11  infringe  or  diminish the rights and benefits which accrue to employees
    12  through bona fide collective bargaining agreements, or otherwise  dimin-

    13  ish the integrity of the existing collective bargaining relationship.
    14    6. As used in this section, employer does not include the state. Noth-
    15  ing  set forth in this section shall be construed as superseding, limit-
    16  ing, or otherwise affecting the provisions of  section  eighty-two-a  of
    17  the  civil  service  law,  providing  for authorized absences for public
    18  officers and employees of the state.
    19    § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
    20  have become a law.