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Assembly Bill A10353A

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Requires employers to notify employees if they come into contact with other employees who have been infected with a virus that is causing a public health emergency

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2019-A10353 - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S8239
Current Committee:
Senate Rules
Law Section:
Labor Law
Laws Affected:
Add §202-n, Lab L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2021-2022: A2509, S4877
2023-2024: A1456
2025-2026: A3256

2019-A10353 - Summary

Requires employers to notify employees if they come into contact with other employees who have been diagnosed in relation to a disease outbreak causing a public health emergency; prohibits employers from disclosing the name of the diagnosed employee.

2019-A10353 - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   10353
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              April 29, 2020
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. AUBRY -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Labor
 
 AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation  to  requiring  employers  to
   notify  employees  if  they come into contact with other employees who
   have been infected with a virus that is causing a public health  emer-
   gency
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. The labor law is amended by adding a new section  202-n  to
 read as follows:
   §  202-N.  PUBLIC HEALTH EMERGENCIES; NOTIFICATION OF CONTACT.  WHEN A
 FEDERAL, STATE, OR LOCAL STATE OF EMERGENCY HAS BEEN DECLARED DUE  TO  A
 VIRUS  CAUSING  A  PUBLIC  HEALTH  EMERGENCY  AND  AN  EMPLOYEE HAS BEEN
 INFECTED WITH THE  VIRUS  CAUSING  SUCH  PUBLIC  HEALTH  EMERGENCY,  THE
 EMPLOYER  SHALL  NOTIFY  EACH  EMPLOYEE  WHO  HAS  HAD  CONTACT WITH THE
 INFECTED EMPLOYEE; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, THAT THE EMPLOYER SHALL NOT REVEAL
 THE NAME OF THE INFECTED EMPLOYEE; PROVIDED FURTHER, HOWEVER, THAT  SUCH
 NOTIFICATION  SHALL  BE  PROVIDED  IN  WRITING  IN THE EMPLOYEE'S NATIVE
 LANGUAGE.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD16144-02-0

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2019-A10353A (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S8239
Current Committee:
Senate Rules
Law Section:
Labor Law
Laws Affected:
Add §202-n, Lab L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2021-2022: A2509, S4877
2023-2024: A1456
2025-2026: A3256

2019-A10353A (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires employers to notify employees if they come into contact with other employees who have been diagnosed in relation to a disease outbreak causing a public health emergency; prohibits employers from disclosing the name of the diagnosed employee.

2019-A10353A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                 10353--A
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              April 29, 2020
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. AUBRY -- 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  the labor law, in relation to requiring employers to
   notify employees if they come into contact with  other  employees  who
   have been diagnosed in relation to a disease outbreak causing a public
   health emergency
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. The labor law is amended by adding a new section  202-n  to
 read as follows:
   §  202-N. PUBLIC HEALTH EMERGENCIES; NOTIFICATION OF CONTACT.  1. WHEN
 A FEDERAL, STATE, OR LOCAL STATE OF EMERGENCY HAS BEEN DECLARED DUE TO A
 DISEASE OUTBREAK CAUSING A PUBLIC HEALTH EMERGENCY AND AN  EMPLOYER  HAS
 REASONABLE  KNOWLEDGE  THAT  AN  EMPLOYEE  HAS  BEEN  DIAGNOSED WITH THE
 DISEASE CAUSING SUCH PUBLIC HEALTH EMERGENCY, THE EMPLOYER SHALL  NOTIFY
 EACH  EMPLOYEE  WHO  HAS  HAD CONTACT WITH THE DIAGNOSED EMPLOYEE WITHIN
 TWENTY-FOUR HOURS OF SUCH KNOWLEDGE, PROVIDED SUCH DISCLOSURE IS AUTHOR-
 IZED BY FEDERAL AND/OR STATE LAW OR REGULATION; PROVIDED, HOWEVER,  THAT
 THE  EMPLOYER  SHALL  NOT REVEAL THE NAME OF THE DIAGNOSED EMPLOYEE; AND
 PROVIDED FURTHER, HOWEVER, THAT SUCH NOTIFICATION SHALL BE  PROVIDED  IN
 WRITING,  IN  ENGLISH  AND  IN  THE  EMPLOYEE'S PRIMARY LANGUAGE.   THIS
 SECTION SHALL NOT APPLY TO AN EMPLOYER WITH TEN OR FEWER EMPLOYEES.
   2. THE COMMISSIONER SHALL PREPARE TEMPLATES OF SUCH  NOTIFICATION  AND
 SHALL DETERMINE, IN HIS OR HER DISCRETION, WHICH LANGUAGES TO PROVIDE IN
 ADDITION  TO ENGLISH, BASED ON THE SIZE OF THE NEW YORK STATE POPULATION
 THAT SPEAKS EACH LANGUAGE AND ANY OTHER  FACTOR  THAT  THE  COMMISSIONER
 SHALL  DEEM  RELEVANT.  ALL  SUCH  TEMPLATES  SHALL BE MADE AVAILABLE TO
 EMPLOYERS IN SUCH MANNER AS DETERMINED  BY  THE  COMMISSIONER.  WHEN  AN
 EMPLOYEE  IDENTIFIES AS HIS OR HER PRIMARY LANGUAGE A LANGUAGE FOR WHICH
 A TEMPLATE IS NOT AVAILABLE FROM THE COMMISSIONER,  THE  EMPLOYER  SHALL
 COMPLY  WITH THIS SUBDIVISION BY PROVIDING SUCH EMPLOYEE AN ENGLISH-LAN-
 GUAGE NOTICE.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets

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