Bill Text: NY S07308 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended


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 - Dead) 2022-03-29 - PRINT NUMBER 7308A [S07308 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S07308-Amended.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                         7308--A

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                      July 28, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen. KENNEDY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules  --  recommitted  to
          the  Committee  on  Labor  in accordance 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, 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.
                                                                   LBD06339-05-2
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