 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7197
 
                    IN SENATE
 
                                    January 10, 2020
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by  Sen. METZGER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
 
        AN ACT to amend the labor  law,  in  relation  to  the  severability  of
          certain provisions
 
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Section 203-e of the labor law, as added by  a  chapter  of
     2  the  laws  of  2019,  amending  the labor law relating to discrimination
     3  based on an employee's or a  dependent's  reproductive  health  decision
     4  making,  as  proposed  in legislative bill numbers S. 660 and A. 584, is
     5  amended by adding a new subdivision 7 to read as follows:
     6    7. If any word, phrase, clause, sentence, paragraph,  subdivision,  or
     7  part of this section or the application thereof to any person or circum-
     8  stances  shall,  for  any  reason, be adjudged by any court of competent
     9  jurisdiction to be invalid, such judgment shall not affect,  impair,  or
    10  invalidate  the  remainder thereof, and the application thereof to other
    11  persons or circumstances, but shall be confined in its operation to  the
    12  word,  phrase, clause, sentence, paragraph, subdivision, or part thereof
    13  directly involved in the controversy in which such judgment  shall  have
    14  been  rendered and to the person or circumstances involved. It is hereby
    15  declared to be the intent of the legislature  that  this  section  would
    16  have  been enacted even if such invalid provisions had not been included
    17  herein.
    18    § 2. This act shall take effect on the  same  date  and  in  the  same
    19  manner as a chapter of the laws of 2019, amending the labor law relating
    20  to  discrimination  based on an employee's or a dependent's reproductive
    21  health decision making, as proposed in legislative bill numbers  S.  660
    22  and A. 584, takes effect.
 
 
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD02778-07-0
Relates to the severability of certain provisions

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