Senate Bill S3024

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Relates to providing four weeks of leave for victims of abuse

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Labor Committee


  • 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-S3024 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Labor
Law Section:
Workers' Compensation Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§201 & 204, add §204-a, Work Comp L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: S7723
2019-2020: S5090
2023-2024: S7965

2021-S3024 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides that an eligible employee may take two weeks of paid leave through the paid family leave program and an additional two weeks of unpaid leave during any 52 week calendar period as a result of being a victim of domestic or sexual abuse.

2021-S3024 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2021-S3024 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   3024
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 27, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sens. PARKER, LIU -- 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
   four weeks of leave for victims of abuse
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Paragraph (c) of subdivision 15 of section 201 of the work-
 ers' compensation law, as added by section 2 of part SS of chapter 54 of
 the laws of 2016, is amended and a new paragraph (d) is added to read as
 follows:
   (c) because of any qualifying exigency as interpreted under the family
 and medical  leave  act,  29  U.S.C.S  §  2612(a)(1)(e)  and  29  C.F.R.
 S.825.126(a)(1)-(8),  arising  out of the fact that the spouse, domestic
 partner, child, or parent of the employee is on active duty (or has been
 notified of an impending call or order to  active  duty)  in  the  armed
 forces of the United States[.]; OR
   (D)  TO  SEEK  SERVICES  AS  A  VICTIM OF DOMESTIC OR SEXUAL VIOLENCE,
 INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, MEDICAL ATTENTION FROM  ANY  PHYSICAL  OR
 PSYCHOLOGICAL  INJURIES,  ATTENDING COUNSELING SESSIONS IN ORDER TO DEAL
 WITH THE EFFECTS OF SUCH INJURIES, SEEKING  LEGAL  ASSISTANCE  INCLUDING
 ATTENDANCE  IN COURT PROCEEDINGS OR TO COMMUNICATE WITH AN ATTORNEY, AND
 SEEKING SERVICES ALLOWING FOR RELOCATING TO  A  PERMANENT  OR  TEMPORARY
 RESIDENCE.
   §  1-a.  Section  201  of  the workers' compensation law is amended by
 adding four new subdivisions 24, 25, 26 and 27 to read as follows:
   24. "VICTIM OF DOMESTIC OR SEXUAL ABUSE" MEANS A  VICTIM  OF  DOMESTIC
 VIOLENCE, A SEX OFFENSE, OR STALKING.
   25.  "VICTIM OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE" MEANS AN INDIVIDUAL WHO IS A VICTIM
 OF AN ACT WHICH WOULD CONSTITUTE A FAMILY OFFENSE PURSUANT  TO  SUBDIVI-
 SION ONE OF SECTION EIGHT HUNDRED TWELVE OF THE FAMILY COURT ACT.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD07238-01-1
              

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