STATE OF NEW YORK
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IN ASSEMBLY
April 8, 2020
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Introduced by M. of A. SOLAGES -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Labor
AN ACT to amend the workers' compensation law, in relation to providing
for paid family leave following the stillbirth of a child
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 mourn the loss of
11 a stillborn child; or (d) because of any qualifying exigency as inter-
12 preted under the family and medical leave act, 29 U.S.C.S §
13 2612(a)(1)(e) and 29 C.F.R. S.825.126(a)(1)-(8), arising out of the fact
14 that the spouse, domestic partner, child, or parent of the employee is
15 on active duty (or has been notified of an impending call or order to
16 active duty) in the armed forces of the United States.
17 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
18 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD15610-01-0
