Bill Text: NY A09635 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Expands the definition of "family leave" to include persons recovering from the unintended intrauterine death of a fetus that occurs after the clinical estimate of the twentieth week of gestation.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-2)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2024-05-15 - print number 9635a [A09635 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A09635-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          9635

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     March 26, 2024
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M.  of A. PHEFFER AMATO -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Labor

        AN ACT to amend the workers' compensation law, in relation to  providing
          family leave to persons recovering from a birth

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 15 of section 201 of the workers'  compensation
     2  law, as added by section 2 of part SS of chapter 54 of the laws of 2016,
     3  is amended to read as follows:
     4    15.  "Family  leave"  shall  mean  any leave taken by an employee from
     5  work:   (a) to participate in  providing  care,  including  physical  or
     6  psychological  care,  for a family member of the employee made necessary
     7  by a serious health condition of the family member; or (b) to bond  with
     8  the  employee's  child  during the first twelve months after the child's
     9  birth, or the first twelve months after the placement of the  child  for
    10  adoption  or  foster  care  with  the employee; or (c) to recover from a
    11  birth; or (d) to recover from a diagnosed case of postpartum depression;
    12  or (e) because of any qualifying exigency as interpreted under the fami-
    13  ly and medical leave act, 29  U.S.C.S  §  2612(a)(1)(e)  and  29  C.F.R.
    14  S.825.126(a)(1)-(8),  arising  out of the fact that the spouse, domestic
    15  partner, child, or parent of the employee is on active duty (or has been
    16  notified of an impending call or order to  active  duty)  in  the  armed
    17  forces of the United States.
    18    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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