Bill Text: NY S09388 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Expands the definition of "family leave" to include persons recovering from the unintended intrauterine death of a fetus that occurs after the clinical estimate of the twentieth week of gestation.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-05-14 - REFERRED TO LABOR [S09388 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S09388-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          9388

                    IN SENATE

                                      May 14, 2024
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  MAYER  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Labor

        AN ACT to amend the workers' compensation law, in relation to  providing
          family  leave  to  persons recovering from the unintended intrauterine
          death of a fetus that occurs after the clinical estimate of the  twen-
          tieth week of gestation

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

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 15 of section 201 of the workers'  compensation
     2  law, as added by section 2 of part SS of chapter 54 of the laws of 2016,
     3  is amended to read as follows:
     4    15.  "Family  leave"  shall  mean  any leave taken by an employee from
     5  work:   (a) to participate in  providing  care,  including  physical  or
     6  psychological  care,  for a family member of the employee made necessary
     7  by a serious health condition of the family member; or (b) to bond  with
     8  the  employee's  child  during the first twelve months after the child's
     9  birth, or the first twelve months after the placement of the  child  for
    10  adoption  or  foster  care with the employee; or (c) to recover from the
    11  unintended intrauterine death of a fetus that occurs after the  clinical
    12  estimate of the twentieth week of gestation; or (d) because of any qual-
    13  ifying  exigency  as interpreted under the family and medical leave act,
    14  29 U.S.C.S § 2612(a)(1)(e) and 29  C.F.R.  S.825.126(a)(1)-(8),  arising
    15  out  of  the fact that the spouse, domestic partner, child, or parent of
    16  the employee is on active duty (or has been  notified  of  an  impending
    17  call or order to active duty) in the armed forces of the United States.
    18    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.



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