Senate Bill S748

Signed By Governor
2019-2020 Legislative Session

Provides an excuse or postponement from jury duty for breastfeeding women

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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-S748 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A5424
Law Section:
Judiciary Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §517, Judy L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2015-2016: S4971, A6793
2017-2018: S4442, A6111

2019-S748 (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-S748 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2019-S748 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    748
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 9, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by Sens. MONTGOMERY, COMRIE -- read twice and ordered print-
   ed, and when printed to be committed 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
 JUROR  IS  A  BREASTFEEDING  MOTHER, THE POSTPONEMENT DATE MAY BE A DATE
 CERTAIN UP TO TWO YEARS AFTER THE DATE ON WHICH SUCH  SERVICE  OTHERWISE
 IS TO COMMENCE.

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