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.
NEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLY MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT OF LEGISLATION submitted in accordance with Assembly Rule III, Sec 1(f)
BILL NUMBER: A9506
SPONSOR: Tapia TITLE OF BILL:
An act to amend the labor law, in relation to nursing employees' right
to express breast milk
PURPOSE:
To require employers to grant employees at least thirty minutes paid
break time for the expression of breast milk.
SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS:
Section one would amend Section 206-c of the Labor Law to provide
employees with thirty.minutes of paid break time to express breast milk
for an employee's nursing child and permit employees to use existing
paid break time such purposes as well.
Section two would set the effective date.
JUSTIFICATION:
Nursing parents should be encouraged to return to work as they are ready
to do so. Permitting such employees at least thirty minutes paid break
time during the workday to express breast milk allows nursing parents to
continue to work without having to lose income through the use of unpaid
break time. This bill will help to ensure that nursing employees have
the resources and support they need to return and continue to work.
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:
New bill.
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:
None to the State.
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act would take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall have
become a law.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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9506
IN ASSEMBLY
March 15, 2024
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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
