Bill Text: NY S01993 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended


Bill Title: Prohibits any funding of the administrative costs of the state's paid family leave program by employers.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 13-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2018-06-20 - COMMITTED TO RULES [S01993 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S01993-Amended.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                         1993--B
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    January 11, 2017
                                       ___________
        Introduced by Sens. AKSHAR, BONACIC, CROCI, DeFRANCISCO, GALLIVAN, GOLD-
          EN,  HANNON, LITTLE, O'MARA, ORTT, RANZENHOFER, SERINO, SEWARD -- read
          twice and ordered printed, and when printed to  be  committed  to  the
          Committee  on  Labor  --  committee  discharged, bill amended, ordered
          reprinted as amended and recommitted to said  committee  --  committee
          discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
          to said committee
        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.
                                                                   LBD04279-04-7
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