Bill Text: NY S02175 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Provides for paid family leave after a stillbirth.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 25-7)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2024-05-06 - RECOMMIT, ENACTING CLAUSE STRICKEN [S02175 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S02175-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         2175--A
            Cal. No. 258

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 19, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sens.  KENNEDY, ADDABBO, ASHBY, BAILEY, BORRELLO, BROUK,
          CANZONERI-FITZPATRICK,  CHU,  COMRIE,  COONEY,  FERNANDEZ,   GIANARIS,
          GOUNARDES,  HARCKHAM,  HELMING,  HINCHEY, HOYLMAN-SIGAL, JACKSON, LIU,
          MAY, MAYER, PALUMBO, PARKER, RAMOS, RHOADS,  RYAN,  SCARCELLA-SPANTON,
          SEPULVEDA,  SKOUFIS,  THOMAS,  WALCZYK, WEBB -- read twice and ordered
          printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Labor --
          reported favorably from said committee, ordered to  first  and  second
          report,  ordered to a third reading, passed by Senate and delivered to
          the Assembly, recalled, vote reconsidered, restored to third  reading,
          amended  and  ordered  reprinted,  retaining its place in the order of
          third reading

        AN ACT to amend the workers' compensation law, in relation to  providing
          for  paid  family leave for a serious health condition of the employee
          caused by or in connection with a pregnancy

          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
     8  with the employee's child during  the  first  twelve  months  after  the
     9  child's  birth,  or  the  first twelve months after the placement of the
    10  child for adoption or foster care with the employee; [or] (c) because of
    11  any qualifying exigency as interpreted  under  the  family  and  medical
    12  leave act, 29 U.S.C.S § 2612(a)(1)(e) and 29 C.F.R. S.825.126(a)(1)-(8),
    13  arising  out  of  the  fact that the spouse, domestic partner, child, or
    14  parent of the employee is on active duty (or has  been  notified  of  an
    15  impending  call  or  order  to  active  duty) in the armed forces of the

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  United States; or (d) to receive care, including physical or  psycholog-
     2  ical  care,  for a serious health condition of the employee caused by or
     3  in connection with a pregnancy.
     4    §  2. This act shall take effect on the first of January following the
     5  first of September next succeeding the  date  on  which  it  shall  have
     6  become  a  law  and  shall  apply  to  all policies or contracts issued,
     7  renewed, modified, altered or amended on or after such date.