Senate Bill S8846

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Relates to nursing employees' right to express breast milk

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Current 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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2023-S8846 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A9506
Current Committee:
Senate Labor
Law Section:
Labor Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §206-c, Lab L

2023-S8846 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires an employer to provide paid break time of up to thirty minutes and permit an employee to use existing paid break time or meal time for time in excess of thirty minutes to an employee to express breast milk.

2023-S8846 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2023-S8846 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8846
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              March 20, 2024
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  RAMOS  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Labor
 
 AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to nursing  employees'  right
   to express breast milk
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 206-c of the labor law, as amended
 by chapter 672 of the laws of 2022, is amended to read as follows:
   1. An employer shall provide [reasonable unpaid] PAID break time  [or]
 FOR  THIRTY  MINUTES,  AND permit an employee to use EXISTING paid break
 time or meal time FOR TIME IN EXCESS OF THIRTY MINUTES,    to  allow  an
 employee  to express breast milk for [her] SUCH EMPLOYEE'S nursing child
 each time such employee has reasonable need to express breast  milk  for
 up  to three years following child birth. No employer shall discriminate
 in any way against an employee who chooses to express breast milk in the
 work place. THE PROVISIONS OF THIS  SUBDIVISION  SHALL  NOT  PREVENT  AN
 EMPLOYER FROM PROVIDING ADDITIONAL PAID BREAK TIME FOR SUCH PURPOSES.
   §  2.  This  act  shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
 have become a law.
 
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD14911-01-4

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