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A09506 Summary:

BILL NOA09506
 
SAME ASNo Same As
 
SPONSORTapia
 
COSPNSR
 
MLTSPNSR
 
Amd 206-c, Lab L
 
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.
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A09506 Actions:

BILL NOA09506
 
03/15/2024referred to labor
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A09506 Memo:

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.
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A09506 Text:



 
                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
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