Bill Text: NY A05746 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides for paid family leave following the outcome of a pregnancy, including a stillbirth, miscarriage or abortion.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to labor [A05746 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A05746-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5746

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     March 23, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M. of A. SOLAGES, L. ROSENTHAL, MAMDANI -- read once and
          referred to the Committee on Labor

        AN ACT to amend the workers' compensation law, in relation to  providing
          for paid family leave following any pregnancy outcome

          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) to recover
    11  after  a  stillbirth; (d) to recover after a miscarriage; (e) to recover
    12  after an abortion; or (f) because of any qualifying exigency  as  inter-
    13  preted   under   the   family  and  medical  leave  act,  29  U.S.C.S  §
    14  2612(a)(1)(e) and 29 C.F.R. S.825.126(a)(1)-(8), arising out of the fact
    15  that the spouse, domestic partner, child, or parent of the  employee  is
    16  on  active  duty  (or has been notified of an impending call or order to
    17  active duty) in the armed forces of the United States.
    18    § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
    19  have become a law.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD10023-01-3