Bill Text: NY S06490 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides benefits to Metro-North employees involved in or who witness a serious injury or fatality of another person in the course of an assigned duty.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION [S06490 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S06490-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6490

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                       May 3, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by Sen. HARCKHAM -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation

        AN ACT to amend the public authorities law,  in  relation  to  providing
          benefits to Metro-North employees involved in or who witness a serious
          injury or fatality of another person in the course of an assigned duty

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. The public authorities law  is  amended  by  adding  a  new
     2  section 1266-l to read as follows:
     3    §  1266-l.  Benefits  for employees involved in or who witness serious
     4  injuries or fatalities of another person in the course  of  an  assigned
     5  duty.  1.  For any employee of the Metro-North Commuter Railroad Company
     6  who witnesses or is otherwise involved in a serious injury  or  fatality
     7  of  another  person  through  the  course  of  his or her assigned duty,
     8  Metro-North shall provide mandatory benefits, including but not  limited
     9  to:
    10    (a)  seven consecutive working days of paid leave, beginning the imme-
    11  diate subsequent day the employee is scheduled to  work,  excluding  the
    12  employee's regularly scheduled days off;
    13    (b) mental health services, including counseling, at the option of the
    14  employee; and
    15    (c)  a mandatory mental health examination conducted by the employee's
    16  health care provider before being approved to return to work, with up to
    17  four additional weeks of paid leave, if recommended by his or her health
    18  care provider.
    19    2. Such employee shall be compensated by Metro-North at an amount  not
    20  less  than  the  employee would have earned on the assignment they would
    21  have worked until such employee has used his or her  full  allotment  of
    22  mandated time off pursuant to this section.
    23    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD08900-02-1