Assembly Bill A10561

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Relates to increasing short-term disability benefits

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Current Bill Status - In Assembly Committee


  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2023-A10561 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S9840
Current Committee:
Assembly Labor
Law Section:
Workers' Compensation Law
Laws Affected:
Amd Work Comp L, generally; amd §§4235 & 2605, Ins L

2023-A10561 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to increasing short-term disability benefits.

2023-A10561 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   10561
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               June 3, 2024
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  COMMITTEE  ON  RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Solages,
   Bronson) -- read once and referred to the Committee on Labor
 
 AN ACT to amend the workers' compensation   law   and   the    insurance
   law, in relation to increasing short-term disability benefits
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Section 200 of the workers' compensation law, as amended by
 section 1 of part SS of chapter 54 of the laws of 2016,  is  amended  to
 read as follows:
   §  200.  Short  title. This article shall be known and may be cited as
 the "disability [benefits law] and  [the]  paid  family  leave  benefits
 law."
   § 2. Subdivisions 14, 15 and 22 of section 201 of the workers' compen-
 sation  law,    subdivision  14 as amended and subdivisions 15 and 22 as
 added by section 2 of part SS of chapter 54 of the  laws  of  2016,  are
 amended to read as follows:
   14.  "A  day  of  disability"  means any day on which the employee was
 prevented from performing work because of disability[, including any day
 which the employee uses for family leave,] and for  which  the  employee
 has not received [his or her] THEIR regular remuneration.
   15.  "Family  leave"  shall  mean  any leave taken by an employee from
 work:   (a) to participate in  providing  care,  including  physical  or
 psychological  care,  for a family member of the employee made necessary
 by a serious health condition of the family member; or (b) to bond  with
 the  employee's  child  during the first twelve months after the child's
 birth, or the first twelve months after the placement of the  child  for
 adoption  or foster care with the employee OR ON OR AFTER JANUARY FIRST,
 TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-FIVE UNTIL JANUARY FIRST, TWO THOUSAND  TWENTY-NINE,
 FOR  THE SIX WEEKS IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING A STILLBIRTH; or (c) because of
 any qualifying exigency as interpreted  under  the  family  and  medical
 leave    act,    29    U.S.C.S    §    2612(a)(1)(e)   and   29   C.F.R.
 S.825.126[(a)(1)-(8)], arising out of the fact that the spouse, domestic
 partner, child, or parent of the employee is on active duty (or has been
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD15841-03-4
              

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