Bill Text: NY S08172 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Provides for requirements for sick leave when such employee is subject to a mandatory or precautionary order of quarantine or isolation due to COVID-19.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-04-13 - REFERRED TO LABOR [S08172 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S08172-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          8172

                    IN SENATE

                                     April 13, 2020
                                       ___________

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

        AN ACT providing requirements for  sick  leave  when  such  employee  is
          subject  to  a  mandatory  or  precautionary  order  of  quarantine or
          isolation due to COVID-19

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

     1    Section  1. Each employee who is subject to a mandatory or precaution-
     2  ary order of quarantine or isolation issued by the state  of  New  York,
     3  the  department  of  health,  local board of health, or any governmental
     4  entity duly authorized to issue such order  due  to  COVID-19  shall  be
     5  entitled  to take sick leave until the termination of any such mandatory
     6  or precautionary order of quarantine or isolation. During the sick leave
     7  related to such mandatory or precautionary quarantine or  isolation,  an
     8  employee  shall be eligible for paid family leave benefits to the extent
     9  that such sick leave is not otherwise paid by an  employer  pursuant  to
    10  the employer's personnel policies or collective bargaining agreement.
    11    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.






         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD15999-01-0
feedback