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2019-2020 Regular Sessions
I N S E N A T E
(PREFILED)
January 9, 2019
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Introduced by Sen. AKSHAR -- 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 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.
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