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Assembly Bill A11619

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Requires employers to provide neonatal intensive care leave

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2025-A11619 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Labor
Law Section:
Labor Law
Laws Affected:
Add §196-c, Lab L

2025-A11619 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires employers to provide unpaid neonatal intensive care leave while any child of an employee is a patient in a neonatal intensive care unit.

2025-A11619 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   11619
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               July 29, 2026
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  COMMITTEE  ON  RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Cruz) --
   read once and referred to the Committee on Labor
 
 AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to requirements for  neonatal
   intensive care leave
 
   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  196-c  to
 read as follows:
   §  196-C.  NEONATAL  INTENSIVE CARE LEAVE. 1. AS USED IN THIS SECTION,
 THE FOLLOWING TERMS SHALL HAVE THE FOLLOWING MEANINGS:
   A. "CHILD" MEANS AN EMPLOYEE'S BIOLOGICAL, ADOPTED, OR FOSTER CHILD, A
 STEPCHILD, A LEGAL WARD, OR A CHILD OF A PERSON STANDING IN LOCO  PAREN-
 TIS.
   B.  "NEONATAL  INTENSIVE  CARE  UNIT"  MEANS  A SPECIAL CARE UNIT THAT
 PROVIDES MEDICAL TREATMENT TO PREMATURE AND CRITICALLY ILL INFANTS.
   2. A. EVERY EMPLOYER SHALL BE REQUIRED TO PROVIDE ITS  EMPLOYEES  WITH
 NEONATAL INTENSIVE CARE LEAVE AS FOLLOWS:
   (I)  FOR  EMPLOYERS  WITH  BETWEEN  SIXTEEN AND FIFTY EMPLOYEES IN ANY
 CALENDAR YEAR, EACH EMPLOYEE SHALL BE ENTITLED TO USE A MAXIMUM  OF  TEN
 DAYS  OF  UNPAID  NEONATAL  INTENSIVE CARE LEAVE WHILE ANY CHILD OF SUCH
 EMPLOYEE IS A PATIENT IN A NEONATAL INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; AND
   (II) FOR EMPLOYERS WITH FIFTY-ONE OR MORE EMPLOYEES  IN  ANY  CALENDAR
 YEAR, EACH EMPLOYEE SHALL BE ENTITLED TO USE A MAXIMUM OF TWENTY DAYS OF
 UNPAID NEONATAL INTENSIVE CARE LEAVE WHILE ANY CHILD OF SUCH EMPLOYEE IS
 A PATIENT IN A NEONATAL INTENSIVE CARE UNIT.
   B.  FOR  PURPOSES  OF  DETERMINING THE NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES PURSUANT TO
 THIS SUBDIVISION, A CALENDAR YEAR SHALL  MEAN  THE  TWELVE-MONTH  PERIOD
 FROM   JANUARY  FIRST  THROUGH  DECEMBER  THIRTY-FIRST.  FOR  ALL  OTHER
 PURPOSES, A CALENDAR YEAR SHALL EITHER MEAN THE TWELVE-MONTH PERIOD FROM
 JANUARY FIRST THROUGH DECEMBER THIRTY-FIRST, OR A  REGULAR  AND  CONSEC-
 UTIVE TWELVE-MONTH PERIOD, AS DETERMINED BY AN EMPLOYER.
   C.  LEAVE MAY BE TAKEN CONTINUALLY OR INTERMITTENTLY AT THE EMPLOYEE'S
 SELECTION. AN EMPLOYER MAY REQUIRE THAT LEAVE BE TAKEN IN MINIMUM INCRE-
 MENTS OF NOT LESS THAN TWO HOURS IN DURATION.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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