Bill Text: NY S03301 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Establishes family care leave benefits within the disability provisions of the workers' compensation law; such benefits provide up to twelve weeks of paid leave from work for the care of a family member with a serious health condition or to bond with the employee's child within the first 12 months of birth or taking custody of such child.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-02-08 - PRINT NUMBER 3301A [S03301 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S03301-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         3301--A
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    February 4, 2015
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  Sens.  KLEIN,  AVELLA, CARLUCCI, SAVINO, VALESKY -- read
          twice and ordered printed, and when printed to  be  committed  to  the
          Committee on Labor -- recommitted to the Committee on Labor in accord-
          ance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill amended,
          ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
        AN  ACT to amend the workers' compensation law and the insurance law, in
          relation to establishing family care benefits
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Subdivision 9 of section 201 of the workers' compensation
     2  law is amended by adding a new paragraph C to read as follows:
     3    C. "Disability" also includes family care.
     4    § 2. Subdivision 14 of section 201 of the workers'  compensation  law,
     5  as added by chapter 600 of the laws of 1949 and as renumbered by chapter
     6  438  of  the laws of 1964, is amended, and nine new subdivisions 15, 16,
     7  17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22 and 23 are added to read as follows:
     8    14. "A day of disability" means any day  on  which  the  employee  was
     9  prevented  from performing work because of disability, including any day
    10  which the employee uses for family care, and for which [he] the employee
    11  has not received his or her regular remuneration.
    12    15. "Family care" means any leave taken by an employee from performing
    13  work:
    14    A. to participate in providing care, including physical or  psycholog-
    15  ical care, for a family member of the employee made necessary by a seri-
    16  ous health condition of the family member; or
    17    B.  to  bond  with the employee's child during the first twelve months
    18  after the child's birth, or the first twelve months after the  placement
    19  of the child for adoption or foster care with the employee.
    20    16. "Child" means a biological, adopted or foster child, a step-child,
    21  a  legal ward or a child of a person who stands in parental relationship
    22  to the child who is:
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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