Bill Text: NY A02880 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Provides for paid family leave after a stillbirth.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 69-32)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to labor [A02880 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-A02880-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 2880--A 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 31, 2023 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. RAJKUMAR, CRUZ, SILLITTI, BUTTENSCHON, JACOBSON, ARDILA, SHRESTHA, ROZIC, ALVAREZ, GALLAGHER, HEVESI, SLATER, BENDETT, MAHER, JENSEN, BEEPHAN, MANKTELOW, DeSTEFANO, SIMON, RAGA, GUNTHER, BURGOS, BURDICK, RAMOS, CLARK, REYES, DURSO, McDONOUGH, NOVAKHOV, MORINELLO, FORREST, CARROLL, STECK, THIELE, AUBRY, SIMONE, ZINERMAN, SEAWRIGHT, JEAN-PIERRE, LAVINE, JONES, DE LOS SANTOS, DAVILA, MAMDANI, CUNNINGHAM, DICKENS, SAYEGH, SEPTIMO, KELLES, DARLING, EACHUS, CHANG, TAGUE, TANNOUSIS, GANDOLFO, BYRNES, SHIMSKY, PIROZZOLO, RA, LEVENBERG, BARCLAY, TAPIA, McMAHON, BORES, VANEL, COLTON, L. ROSENTHAL, ANDERSON, WALLACE, TAYLOR, STERN, LUNSFORD, PRETLOW, EICHENSTEIN, FLOOD, MCGOW- AN, SIMPSON, J. A. GIGLIO, SMITH, BRABENEC, MILLER, GRAY, BLUMENCRANZ, LEMONDES, PALMESANO, KIM, CHANDLER-WATERMAN, FAHY, J. M. GIGLIO, WEPRIN, MITAYNES, JACKSON, WALSH, BICHOTTE HERMELYN, MEEKS, EPSTEIN, O'DONNELL -- read once and referred to the Committee on Labor -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee 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 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD02942-04-3A. 2880--A 2 1 any qualifying exigency as interpreted under the family and medical 2 leave act, 29 U.S.C.S § 2612(a)(1)(e) and 29 C.F.R. S.825.126(a)(1)-(8), 3 arising out of the fact that the spouse, domestic partner, child, or 4 parent of the employee is on active duty (or has been notified of an 5 impending call or order to active duty) in the armed forces of the 6 United States; or (d) to receive care, including physical or psycholog- 7 ical care, for a serious health condition of the employee caused by or 8 in connection with a pregnancy. 9 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of January following the 10 first of September next succeeding the date on which it shall have 11 become a law and shall apply to all policies or contracts issued, 12 renewed, modified, altered or amended on or after such date.
