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Assembly Bill A9322

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Directs the state civil service commission to amend the sick leave accrual rates for state employees designated managerial or confidential

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2025-A9322 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S8611
Current Committee:
Assembly Governmental Employees
Law Section:
Civil Service

2025-A9322 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Directs the state civil service commission to amend the sick leave accrual rates for state employees designated managerial or confidential to be credited with sick leave at the rate of 13 days per year.

2025-A9322 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   9322
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             December 10, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of A. PHEFFER AMATO -- read once and referred to the
   Committee on Governmental Employees
 
 AN ACT directing the state civil service commission to  amend  the  sick
   leave  accrual  rates  for  state  employees  designated managerial or
   confidential

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  The  state  civil  service commission shall amend 4 NYCRR
 28-1.3 to provide that state employees designated managerial  or  confi-
 dential  and  subject  to  the attendance rules of the state of New York
 shall be credited with sick leave at the  rate  of  13  days  per  year,
 effective  with  the  first  biweekly  administration  and institutional
 payroll periods following April 1, 2026. All  such  full-time  employees
 shall  earn  sick  leave  at  the  rate  of 3.75 or 4 hours per biweekly
 payroll period, based on whether they occupy a 37.5 or 40 hour per  week
 position,  respectively.  Such employees shall be eligible to accrue 225
 days of sick leave credits. Such  employees  shall  be  eligible  to  be
 granted and use sick leave at half-pay upon the exhaustion of their sick
 leave  accruals.  The  cumulative  total  of  all sick leave at half-pay
 granted to an eligible employee during their  state  service  shall  not
 exceed  one  payroll  period  for  each  completed  six  months of state
 service.  Employees currently enrolled in the  state  of  New  York  M/C
 Income  Protection  Plan (IPP) shall have a one-time voluntary option to
 remain in the IPP. Such employees affirmatively opting to remain in  the
 IPP  shall instead be credited with sick leave at the rate of 4 days for
 every six-month period, not to exceed 8 days over 12 consecutive months.
 A decision to remain in the IPP shall be irrevocable. Employees hired or
 promoted into a position designated  managerial  or  confidential  shall
 have  a  one-time voluntary option to join the IPP. A decision to enroll
 in the IPP is irrevocable. Such employees affirmatively opting to  newly
 enroll  in the IPP shall instead be credited with sick leave at the rate
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD11977-02-5

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