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Assembly Bill A3256

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Requires employers to notify employees if they come into contact with other employees who have been infected with a virus that is causing a public health emergency

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2025-A3256 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Labor
Law Section:
Labor Law
Laws Affected:
Add §202-n, Lab L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: A10353
2021-2022: A2509
2023-2024: A1456

2025-A3256 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires employers to notify employees if they come into contact with other employees who have been diagnosed in relation to a disease outbreak causing a public health emergency; prohibits employers from disclosing the name of the diagnosed employee.

2025-A3256 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   3256
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 27, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M. of A. DINOWITZ, JACOBSON -- read once and referred to
   the Committee on Labor
 
 AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation  to  requiring  employers  to
   notify  employees  if  they come into contact with other employees who
   have been diagnosed in relation to a disease outbreak causing a public
   health emergency

   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 202-n to
 read as follows:
   § 202-N. PUBLIC HEALTH EMERGENCIES; NOTIFICATION OF CONTACT.  1.  WHEN
 A FEDERAL, STATE, OR LOCAL STATE OF EMERGENCY HAS BEEN DECLARED DUE TO A
 DISEASE  OUTBREAK  CAUSING A PUBLIC HEALTH EMERGENCY AND AN EMPLOYER HAS
 REASONABLE KNOWLEDGE THAT  AN  EMPLOYEE  HAS  BEEN  DIAGNOSED  WITH  THE
 DISEASE  CAUSING SUCH PUBLIC HEALTH EMERGENCY, THE EMPLOYER SHALL NOTIFY
 EACH EMPLOYEE WHO HAS HAD CONTACT WITH  THE  DIAGNOSED  EMPLOYEE  WITHIN
 TWENTY-FOUR HOURS OF SUCH KNOWLEDGE, PROVIDED SUCH DISCLOSURE IS AUTHOR-
 IZED  BY FEDERAL AND/OR STATE LAW OR REGULATION; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, THAT
 THE EMPLOYER SHALL NOT REVEAL THE NAME OF THE  DIAGNOSED  EMPLOYEE;  AND
 PROVIDED  FURTHER,  HOWEVER, THAT SUCH NOTIFICATION SHALL BE PROVIDED IN
 WRITING, IN ENGLISH AND  IN  THE  EMPLOYEE'S  PRIMARY  LANGUAGE.    THIS
 SECTION SHALL NOT APPLY TO AN EMPLOYER WITH TEN OR FEWER EMPLOYEES.
   2.  THE  COMMISSIONER SHALL PREPARE TEMPLATES OF SUCH NOTIFICATION AND
 SHALL DETERMINE, IN THEIR DISCRETION,  WHICH  LANGUAGES  TO  PROVIDE  IN
 ADDITION  TO ENGLISH, BASED ON THE SIZE OF THE NEW YORK STATE POPULATION
 THAT SPEAKS EACH LANGUAGE AND ANY OTHER  FACTOR  THAT  THE  COMMISSIONER
 SHALL  DEEM  RELEVANT.  ALL  SUCH  TEMPLATES  SHALL BE MADE AVAILABLE TO
 EMPLOYERS IN SUCH MANNER AS DETERMINED  BY  THE  COMMISSIONER.  WHEN  AN
 EMPLOYEE  IDENTIFIES  AS  THEIR  PRIMARY LANGUAGE A LANGUAGE FOR WHICH A
 TEMPLATE IS NOT AVAILABLE FROM  THE  COMMISSIONER,  THE  EMPLOYER  SHALL
 COMPLY  WITH THIS SUBDIVISION BY PROVIDING SUCH EMPLOYEE AN ENGLISH-LAN-
 GUAGE NOTICE.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets

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