A09506 Summary:
BILL NO | A09506 |
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SAME AS | SAME AS S08846 |
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SPONSOR | Tapia |
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COSPNSR | Taylor, Colton, Rozic |
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MLTSPNSR | |
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Amd 206-c, Lab L | |
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Requires an employer to provide paid break time of up to thirty minutes and permit an employee to use existing paid break time or meal time for time in excess of thirty minutes to an employee to express breast milk. |
A09506 Actions:
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03/15/2024 | referred to labor | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
03/19/2024 | reported referred to codes |
A09506 Text:
Go to top STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 9506 IN ASSEMBLY March 15, 2024 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. TAPIA -- read once and referred to the Committee on Labor AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to nursing employees' right to express breast milk The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 206-c of the labor law, as amended 2 by chapter 672 of the laws of 2022, is amended to read as follows: 3 1. An employer shall provide [reasonable unpaid] paid break time [or] 4 for thirty minutes, and permit an employee to use existing paid break 5 time or meal time for time in excess of thirty minutes, to allow an 6 employee to express breast milk for [her] such employee's nursing child 7 each time such employee has reasonable need to express breast milk for 8 up to three years following child birth. No employer shall discriminate 9 in any way against an employee who chooses to express breast milk in the 10 work place. The provisions of this subdivision shall not prevent an 11 employer from providing additional paid break time for such purposes. 12 § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall 13 have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD14911-01-4