Assembly Bill A5975

Signed By Governor
2019-2020 Legislative Session

Amends the definition of pregnancy-related condition to include lactation as a possible way of determining if an individual possesses such condition

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  • 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-A5975 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S4211
Law Section:
Executive Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §292, Exec L

2019-A5975 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Amends the definition of pregnancy-related condition to include lactation as a possible way of determining if an individual possesses such condition.

2019-A5975 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5975
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 22, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. REYES -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Governmental Operations
 
 AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation  to  amending  the  defi-
   nition of pregnancy-related condition
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Subdivision 21-f of section 292 of the  executive  law,  as
 added by chapter 369 of the laws of 2015, is amended to read as follows:
   21-f. The term "pregnancy-related condition" means a medical condition
 related  to  pregnancy  or  childbirth  that  inhibits the exercise of a
 normal bodily function or is demonstrable by medically accepted clinical
 or laboratory diagnostic techniques, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO LACTA-
 TION; provided, however, that in all provisions of this article  dealing
 with employment, the term shall be limited to conditions which, upon the
 provision  of  reasonable accommodations, do not prevent the complainant
 from performing in a reasonable manner the activities  involved  in  the
 job  or  occupation  sought or held; and provided further, however, that
 pregnancy-related conditions shall be treated as temporary  disabilities
 for the purposes of this article.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD10164-01-9

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