STATE OF NEW YORK
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4468--B
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 5, 2025
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Introduced by Sens. MAYER, ASHBY, COONEY, HARCKHAM, JACKSON, RHOADS --
read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to
the Committee on Labor -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee -- 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
family leave to persons recovering from a stillbirth
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 with
8 the employee's child during the first twelve months after the child's
9 birth, or the first twelve months after the placement of the child for
10 adoption or foster care with the employee; or (c) to recover from a
11 stillbirth, as defined in subdivision seven of section forty-one hundred
12 sixty-a of the public health law; or (d) because of any qualifying
13 exigency as interpreted under the family and medical leave act, 29
14 U.S.C.S § 2612(a)(1)(e) and 29 C.F.R. S.825.126(a)(1)-(8), arising out
15 of the fact that the spouse, domestic partner, child, or parent of the
16 employee is on active duty (or has been notified of an impending call or
17 order to 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.
LBD08434-06-6
