Bill Text: NY A02851 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Establishes the New York family leave act providing for leaves of absence for the birth or adoption of a child.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 11-2)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-25 - print number 2851a [A02851 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A02851-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         2851--A
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 20, 2015
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        Introduced  by  M. of A. SIMOTAS, ROSENTHAL, MONTESANO, TITUS, DINOWITZ,
          AUBRY, WEPRIN, WRIGHT, ROZIC -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A.  GLICK,
          GOTTFRIED,  RA,  TITONE  -- read once and referred to the Committee on
          Labor -- recommitted to the Committee  on  Labor  in  accordance  with
          Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
          reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
        AN  ACT  to amend the labor law, the civil service law and the insurance
          law, in relation to establishing the New York family leave act
          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  the "New York family leave act".
     3    § 2. The labor law is amended by adding a new section 202-n to read as
     4  follows:
     5    § 202-n. Leave of absence upon the birth or adoption of a child grant-
     6  ed to employees. 1.  For the purposes of  this  section,  the  following
     7  terms shall have the following meanings:
     8    (a) "Commencement of the parent-child relationship" shall mean:
     9    (i)  When the adoption occurs under sponsorship of an authorized agen-
    10  cy, as defined in subdivision ten of section three  hundred  seventy-one
    11  of  the social services law, the date the child is placed by the author-
    12  ized agency in the home of the  adoptive  parents  pursuant  to  section
    13  three hundred eighty-four of the social services law.
    14    (ii) When the adoption occurs without the sponsorship of an authorized
    15  agency,  the  date  a petition for the adoption of a child residing with
    16  the adoptive parents is filed in a court.
    17    (b) "Employee" means a person who performs services for  hire  for  an
    18  employer,  for an average of twenty or more hours per week, and includes
    19  all individuals employed at any site owned or operated  by  an  employer
    20  but shall not include an independent contractor.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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