Assembly Bill A9479

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Expands eligibility for temporary disability insurance and paid family leave benefits

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2021-A9479 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Labor
Law Section:
Workers' Compensation Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§201, 203, 203-a, 203-b, 203-c, 204, 207 & 212, Work Comp L

2021-A9479 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Expands eligibility for temporary disability insurance and paid family leave benefits.

2021-A9479 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   9479
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               March 7, 2022
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. SOLAGES -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Labor
 
 AN ACT to amend the workers' compensation law,  in  relation  to  expand
   eligibility  for  temporary disability insurance and paid family leave
   benefits
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section  1.  Subdivision 9 of section 201 of the workers' compensation
 law is amended by adding a new paragraph C to read as follows:
   C. "DISABILITY" ALSO INCLUDES THE INABILITY OF AN EMPLOYEE TO WORK  IN
 ORDER  TO  RECEIVE  MEDICAL TREATMENT FOR A SERIOUS HEALTH CONDITION NOT
 ARISING OUT OF AND IN THE COURSE OF EMPLOYMENT.
   § 2.  Section 203 of the workers'  compensation  law,  as  amended  by
 section  3  of  part SS of chapter 54 of the laws of 2016, is amended to
 read as follows:
   § 203. Employees eligible for benefits under section two hundred  four
 of  this article. Employees in employment of a covered employer for four
 or more consecutive weeks and employees in employment  during  the  work
 period usual to and available during such four or more consecutive weeks
 in  any  trade  or  business in which they are regularly employed and in
 which hiring from day to day of such employees is the  usual  employment
 practice  shall  be eligible for disability AND FAMILY LEAVE benefits as
 provided in section two hundred four  of  this  article.  [Employees  in
 employment  of  a  covered  employer  for twenty-six or more consecutive
 weeks and employees in employment during the work period  usual  to  and
 available  during such twenty-six or more consecutive weeks in any trade
 or business in which they are regularly employed  and  in  which  hiring
 from day to day of such employees is the usual employment practice shall
 be eligible for family leave benefits as provided in section two hundred
 four of this article.  Every such employee shall continue to be eligible
 for  family leave benefits only during employment with a covered employ-
 er.] Every such employee shall continue to be  eligible  for  disability
 AND  FAMILY  LEAVE  benefits  during such employment and for a period of
 four weeks after such employment terminates regardless  of  whether  the
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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