Assembly Bill A6259

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Exempts daycare facility and childcare facility employers from providing for COVID-19 sick leave

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Current Bill Status - In Assembly 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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2025-A6259 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Labor
Law Section:
Labor
Laws Affected:
Amd §1, Chap 25 of 2020
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
A6407

2025-A6259 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Exempts daycare facility and childcare facility employers from providing for COVID-19 sick leave.

2025-A6259 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6259
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 27, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. BRABENEC -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Labor
 
 AN  ACT  to amend chapter 25 of the laws of 2020, providing requirements
   for sick leave and the provision of  certain  employee  benefits  when
   such  employee  is  subject  to  a mandatory or precautionary order of
   quarantine or isolation due to  COVID-19,  in  relation  to  exempting
   daycare  facility  and childcare facility employers from providing for
   COVID-19 sick leave
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivision  1  of section 1 of chapter 25 of the laws of
 2020, providing requirements for sick leave and the provision of certain
 employee benefits when such  employee  is  subject  to  a  mandatory  or
 precautionary  order  of  quarantine  or  isolation  due to COVID-19, is
 amended by adding a new paragraph (f) to read as follows:
   (F) DAYCARE FACILITY OR CHILDCARE FACILITY EMPLOYERS ARE  EXEMPT  FROM
 THE  REQUIREMENT  OF  THIS  CHAPTER  TO PROVIDE PAID SICK LEAVE TO THEIR
 EMPLOYEES.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately; provided,  however,  that
 the amendments to section 1 of chapter 25 of the laws of 2020, providing
 requirements  for sick leave and the provision of certain employee bene-
 fits when such employee is subject to a mandatory or precautionary order
 of quarantine or isolation due to COVID-19, made by section one of  this
 act  shall  expire  on the same date as such section and shall be deemed
 repealed therewith.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD08862-01-5

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