---
type: "Bill"
title: "Provides an excuse or postponement from jury duty for breastfeeding women"
description: "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."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ny"
legislature: "New York Legislature"
session: "2019-2020"
identifier: "S 748"
citation: "New York S 748 (2019-2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["MONTGOMERY"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2019-01-09"
last_action: "2019-10-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4e284056-e361-4040-b1f7-408e9fe2220b"
source_url: "http://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2019/S748"
source_hash: "70e27842aef4f75552c2e97a0d2d3bedd703355f60b99f8dc816f87fba031815"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ny"]
---

# New York S 748 (2019-2020) — Provides an excuse or postponement from jury duty for breastfeeding women

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.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **S748** (committee substitute) — [source](http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?sh=printbill&bn=S748&term=2019&Text=Y)

## Votes

- Floor Vote — **62–0** (pass) · upper
- Women's Issues Vote — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Assembly Vote — **146–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- MONTGOMERY — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2019-01-09** REFERRED TO JUDICIARY `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-06** COMMITTEE DISCHARGED AND COMMITTED TO WOMEN'S ISSUES `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-11** 1ST REPORT CAL.136
- **2019-02-12** 2ND REPORT CAL.
- **2019-02-26** ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
- **2019-02-27** PASSED SENATE `passage`
- **2019-02-27** DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
- **2019-02-27** REFERRED TO JUDICIARY `referral-committee`
- **2019-06-04** SUBSTITUTED FOR A5424
- **2019-06-04** ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.518
- **2019-06-04** PASSED ASSEMBLY `passage`
- **2019-06-04** RETURNED TO SENATE
- **2019-10-11** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR `executive-receipt`
- **2019-10-21** SIGNED CHAP.380 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4e284056-e361-4040-b1f7-408e9fe2220b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New York legislature records).