Assembly Bill A5746

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Provides for paid family leave following pregnancy outcome

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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-A5746 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Labor
Law Section:
Workers' Compensation Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §201, Work Comp L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: A10244
2021-2022: A5231

2023-A5746 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides for paid family leave following the outcome of a pregnancy, including a stillbirth, miscarriage or abortion.

2023-A5746 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5746
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              March 23, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M. of A. SOLAGES, L. ROSENTHAL, MAMDANI -- read once and
   referred to the Committee on Labor
 
 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:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 15 of section 201 of the workers'  compensation
 law, as added by section 2 of part SS of chapter 54 of the laws of 2016,
 is amended to read as follows:
   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] (c) TO RECOVER
 AFTER  A  STILLBIRTH; (D) TO RECOVER AFTER A MISCARRIAGE; (E) TO RECOVER
 AFTER AN ABORTION; OR (F) because of any qualifying exigency  as  inter-
 preted   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 notified of an impending call or order to
 active duty) in the armed forces of the United States.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
 have become a law.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD10023-01-3

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