A 479: Entitles employees 45 years of age or older to take one day off every ten years to undergo a colonoscopy.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 479 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY (Prefiled) January 8, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN, BRONSON, COLTON, CRUZ, SIMON, SAYEGH, STECK -- read once and referred to the Committee on Labor AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to providing employees with one day off every ten years to undergo a colonoscopy The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may be cited as 2 "45 saves lives". 3 § 2. The labor law is amended by adding a new section 202-m to read as 4 follows: 5 § 202-m. Leave of absence for colonoscopies. 1. For the purposes of 6 this section, the following terms shall have the following meanings: 7 (a) "Employee" means a person who performs services for hire for an 8 employer, for an average of twenty or more hours per week, and includes 9 all individuals employed at any site owned or operated by an employer 10 but shall not include an independent contractor. 11 (b) "Employer" means a person or entity that employs twenty or more 12 employees at at least one site and includes an individual, corporation, 13 partnership, association, nonprofit organization, group of persons, 14 state, county, town, city, school district, public authority or other 15 governmental subdivision of any kind. 16 2. An employer shall grant one day of leave of absence every ten years 17 to all employees forty-five years of age or older in order for such 18 employee to undergo a colonoscopy. 19 3. An employer shall not retaliate against an employee for requesting 20 or obtaining a leave of absence authorized pursuant to this section. 21 4. This section shall not affect an employee's rights with respect to 22 any other employee benefit otherwise provided by law. 23 § 3. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall 24 become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD02094-01-5