Bill Text: NY A10466 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended


Bill Title: Provides requirements for sick leave and the provision of certain employee benefits when such employee is subject to a mandatory or precautionary order of quarantine or isolation due to COVID-19, in relation to practices and procedures for documenting mandatory and precautionary orders of quarantine or isolation.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 21-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-05-24 - print number 10466a [A10466 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A10466-Amended.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                        10466--A

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      May 22, 2020
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  COMMITTEE  ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Nolan) --
          read once  and  referred  to  the  Committee  on  Labor  --  committee
          discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
          to said committee

        AN  ACT  to  amend chapter 25 of the laws of 2020, relating to providing
          requirements for sick leave and  the  provision  of  certain  employee
          benefits when such employee is subject to a mandatory or precautionary
          order  of  quarantine  or  isolation  due  to COVID-19, in relation to
          mandatory and precautionary orders of quarantine or isolation and  the
          provision of certain employee benefits

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 1 of chapter 25  of  the  laws  of
     2  2020,  relating  to  providing  requirements  for  sick  leave  and  the
     3  provision of certain employee benefits when such employee is subject  to
     4  a  mandatory  or  precautionary  order of quarantine or isolation due to
     5  COVID-19, is amended to read as follows:
     6    2. (a) For purposes of this act, "mandatory or precautionary order  of
     7  quarantine  or  isolation" shall mean a mandatory or precautionary order
     8  of quarantine or isolation issued by the state of New York, the [depart-
     9  ment] commissioner of health, local board of health, local health  offi-
    10  cer,  or any government official or entity [duly] (as any of those terms
    11  is defined in the public health law) authorized to issue such order, due
    12  to COVID-19.
    13    (b)   Where an individual voluntarily  participates  in  precautionary
    14  quarantine,  a written agreement or other documentation of communication
    15  with an official or entity listed in this subdivision, or  the  individ-
    16  ual's attending health care practitioner (licensed, certified, or other-
    17  wise  authorized  to  practice  under  title eight of the education law,
    18  acting within the practitioner's lawful scope of practice)  that  demon-
    19  strates  adherence to precautionary quarantine measures shall be consid-
    20  ered a precautionary order of quarantine or isolation for  the  purposes
    21  of  this  act.  The  agreement or documentation shall set forth that the
    22  individual is to quarantine or isolate and that  the  individual  either

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD16336-04-0

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     1  tested  positive  for COVID-19 or is exhibiting symptoms consistent with
     2  COVID-19.
     3    The  attending  health care practitioner shall notify the local health
     4  department within the timeframes prescribed under  regulation,  or  when
     5  providing  documentation for quarantine or isolation that occurred prior
     6  to the taking effect of this paragraph, shall notify  the  local  health
     7  department  concurrent  with  or prior to providing the documentation to
     8  the individual or the individual's employer.    Failure  to  notify  the
     9  local health department shall not affect the individual's entitlement to
    10  sick leave under this act.
    11    §  2.  Subdivision  1  of section 1 of chapter 25 of the laws of 2020,
    12  relating to providing requirements for sick leave and the  provision  of
    13  certain  employee  benefits when such employee is subject to a mandatory
    14  or precautionary order of quarantine or isolation due  to  COVID-19,  is
    15  amended by adding a new paragraph (f) to read as follows:
    16    (f)  For  purposes of this act, employees shall be provided sick leave
    17  and other benefits in each instance they  meet  the  qualifications  for
    18  quarantine or isolation due to COVID-19.
    19    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
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