STATE OF NEW YORK
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2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE(Prefiled)
January 9, 2019
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Introduced by Sen. AKSHAR -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Labor
AN ACT to amend the workers' compensation law, in relation to prohibit-
ing any funding of the administrative costs of the state's paid family
leave program by employers
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 3 of section 209 of the work-
2 ers' compensation law, as added by section 10 of part SS of chapter 54
3 of the laws of 2016, is amended to read as follows:
4 (b) Family leave benefits. On June first, two thousand seventeen and
5 annually thereafter on September first, the superintendent of financial
6 services shall set the maximum employee contribution, using sound actu-
7 arial principles and the reports provided in section two hundred eight
8 of this article. No employer shall be required to fund any portion of
9 the family leave benefit or any administrative costs associated with
10 such benefit.
11 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD00464-01-9
