Bill Text: NY A09506 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 9506

Introduced

Bill Title: 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.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-03-19 - reported referred to codes [A09506 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A09506-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          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