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                                   3821
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 31, 2019
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 Introduced  by  M. of A. McDONALD, BYRNE, RAIA -- read once and referred
   to the Committee on Labor
 
 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:
 
   Section 1. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 3 of section 209 of the  work-
 ers'  compensation  law, as added by section 10 of part SS of chapter 54
 of the laws of 2016, is amended to read as follows:
   (b) Family leave benefits. On June first, two thousand  seventeen  and
 annually  thereafter on September first, the superintendent of financial
 services shall set the maximum employee contribution, using sound  actu-
 arial  principles  and the reports provided in section two hundred eight
 of this article. No employer shall be required to fund  any  portion  of
 the  family  leave  benefit  OR ANY ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS ASSOCIATED WITH
 SUCH BENEFIT.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD00464-01-9