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                                   3460
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 29, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. ABINANTI -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Governmental Employees
 
 AN  ACT  to amend the civil service law, in relation to leave for cancer
   screening
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 159-b of the civil service law, as
 amended  by  chapter  465  of  the  laws  of 2017, is amended to read as
 follows:
   1. Every public officer, employee of this state, employee of any coun-
 ty, employee of any community college, employee of any public authority,
 employee of any public benefit corporation, employee  of  any  board  of
 cooperative  educational  services  (BOCES),  employee of any vocational
 education and extension  board,  or  a  school  district  enumerated  in
 section  one  of  chapter five hundred sixty-six of the laws of nineteen
 hundred sixty-seven, employee  of  any  municipality,  employee  of  any
 school  district  or any employee of a participating employer in the New
 York state and local employees' retirement system or any employee  of  a
 participating employer in the New York state teachers' retirement system
 shall  be  entitled  to absent himself or herself and shall be deemed to
 have a paid leave of absence from his or her duties or service  as  such
 public  officer  or  employee  of  this  state,  employee of any county,
 employee of any community college, employee  of  any  public  authority,
 employee  of  any  public  benefit corporation, employee of any board of
 cooperative educational services (BOCES),  employee  of  any  vocational
 education  and  extension  board,  or  a  school  district enumerated in
 section one of chapter five hundred sixty-six of the  laws  of  nineteen
 hundred  sixty-seven,  employee  of  any  municipality,  employee of any
 school district, or any employee of a participating employer in the  New
 York  state  and local employees' retirement system or any employee of a
 participating employer in the New York state teachers' retirement system

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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 for a sufficient period of time, not to exceed [four] EIGHT hours on  an
 annual basis, to undertake a screening for cancer.
   §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
 have become a law.