Bill Text: NY A03640 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Adds siblings to the definition of family member for the purposes of paid family leave.

Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 23-2)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to labor [A03640 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A03640-Introduced.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                          3640
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 30, 2019
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by M. of A. GALEF -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Labor
        AN ACT to amend the workers' compensation law, in relation to paid fami-
          ly leave and siblings
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1. Section 201 of the workers' compensation law is amended by
     2  adding a new subdivision 24 to read as follows:
     3    24. "Sibling" means a biological or adopted sibling, a half-sibling or
     4  stepsibling.
     5    § 2. Subdivision 20 of section 201 of the workers'  compensation  law,
     6  as  added  by section 2 of part SS of chapter 54 of the laws of 2016, is
     7  amended to read as follows:
     8    20. "Family member" means a child,  parent,  grandparent,  grandchild,
     9  sibling, spouse, or domestic partner as defined in this section.
    10    §  3.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
    11  have become a law and shall apply to all policies or  contracts  issued,
    12  renewed, modified, altered or amended on or after such date.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD06086-01-9
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