Bill Text: NY A10244 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides for paid family leave following the stillbirth of a child.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-04-08 - referred to labor [A10244 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A10244-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          10244

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      April 8, 2020
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. SOLAGES -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Labor

        AN ACT to amend the workers' compensation law, in relation to  providing
          for paid family leave following the stillbirth of a child

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




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD15610-01-0