Assembly Bill A5424

Signed By Governor
2019-2020 Legislative Session

Provides an exemption from jury duty for breastfeeding women

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Archive: Last Bill Status Via S748 - Signed by Governor

  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2019-A5424 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S748
Law Section:
Judiciary Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §517, Judy L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2015-2016: A6793, S4971
2017-2018: A6111, S4442

2019-A5424 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides an exemption from jury duty for breastfeeding women; allows that such breastfeeding mother's jury duty shall be postponed up to two years after the date on which such service otherwise is to commence.

2019-A5424 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5424
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 12, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. CRESPO -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. BARRETT,
   BLAKE,  BRAUNSTEIN,  DAVILA,  HEVESI,  HYNDMAN,  JAFFEE,  JEAN-PIERRE,
   JOYNER, RAIA, SIMON, SIMOTAS, STECK -- read once and referred  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:
 
   Section 1. Paragraphs 1 and 2 of subdivision (a) of section 517 of the
 judiciary law, paragraph 1 as amended and paragraph 2 as added by  chap-
 ter 86 of the laws of 1995, are amended to read as follows:
   (1) Except as otherwise provided in paragraph two of this subdivision,
 the  commissioner of jurors may, in his or her discretion, on the appli-
 cation of a prospective juror who has been summoned  to  attend,  excuse
 such  prospective  juror  from  a  part or the whole of the time of jury
 service or may postpone the time of jury service to a later  day  during
 the  same  or  any  subsequent  term  of the court, PROVIDED THAT IF THE
 PROSPECTIVE JUROR IS A BREASTFEEDING MOTHER AND SUBMITS WITH HER  APPLI-
 CATION  A NOTE FROM A PHYSICIAN INDICATING THAT THE PROSPECTIVE JUROR IS
 BREASTFEEDING, THE COMMISSIONER SHALL EXCUSE THE  PROSPECTIVE  JUROR  OR
 POSTPONE THE TIME OF JURY SERVICE. The application shall be presented to
 the  commissioner  at  such  time  and in such manner as he or she shall
 require, except that an application for postponement of the initial date
 for jury service may be made by telephone.
   (2) An application for postponement of jury service shall  be  granted
 hereunder  provided:  (i) such service has not already been postponed or
 excused, (ii) the application is made at such time and in such manner as
 the commissioner of jurors requires, and (iii) the postponement is to  a
 date certain when the court is in session not more than six months after
 the date on which such service otherwise is to commence and such date is
 selected  by  the  prospective  juror, PROVIDED  THAT IF THE PROSPECTIVE
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

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