Assembly Bill A7697

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to providing minimum standards governing maternity policy for institutions employing police officers and correctional officers

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Current Bill Status - In Assembly Committee

  • 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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2025-A7697 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S6548
Current Committee:
Assembly Governmental Operations
Law Section:
Executive Law
Laws Affected:
Add §845-f, Exec L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2015-2016: S6736
2017-2018: S4505
2019-2020: S1972
2021-2022: A5452, S3244
2023-2024: A2002, S4821

2025-A7697 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to providing minimum standards governing maternity policy for institutions employing police officers and correctional officers including uniform and/or equipment modifications, exemption from firearm qualification requirements, and ensuring there is no discrimination or poor treatment of pregnant individuals.

2025-A7697 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7697
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               April 8, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. WALKER -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Governmental Operations
 
 AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to maternity policies for
   police officers and correctional officers
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. The executive law is amended by adding a new section  845-f
 to read as follows:
   §  845-F.  MATERNITY  POLICY. ANY ENTITY EMPLOYING A POLICE OFFICER OF
 THE STATE OR A MUNICIPALITY, OR A CORRECTIONAL OFFICER, SHALL  ADOPT  OR
 REVISE  MATERNITY  LEAVE POLICIES TO CONFORM WITH THE FOLLOWING REQUIRE-
 MENTS:
   (A) ENSURE AGAINST DISCRIMINATION ON THE BASIS  OF  PREGNANCY,  CHILD-
 BIRTH, OR ANY RELATED MEDICAL CONDITION;
   (B)  PROVIDE  THAT  SUCH  OFFICERS  ARE TREATED IN THE SAME FASHION AS
 TEMPORARILY DISABLED OFFICERS DURING PREGNANCY;
   (C) PROVIDE FOR PROCEDURES TO  MODIFY  FULL-DUTY  ASSIGNMENTS  AND  TO
 PROVIDE  TEMPORARY,  LIGHT-DUTY ASSIGNMENTS, IF AND WHEN MEDICALLY INDI-
 CATED, CONSISTENT WITH THE OPERATIONAL  REQUIREMENTS  OF  THE  EMPLOYING
 ENTITY, AND THAT TAKE INTO CONSIDERATION ANY SPECIFIC RESTRICTIONS IDEN-
 TIFIED BY A PREGNANT OFFICER'S PHYSICIAN;
   (D)  EXEMPT  SUCH  OFFICERS  FROM  FIREARMS QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS
 DURING PREGNANCY; AND
   (E) PROVIDE FOR ALL PRACTICABLE  UNIFORM  AND/OR  EQUIPMENT  MODIFICA-
 TIONS, AS MAY BE NECESSARY.
   §  2.  This  act  shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
 have become a law.
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD06862-01-5

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