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