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Senate Bill S8366

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to family leave related to active service in the New York national guard

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2025-S8366 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Rules
Law Section:
Workers' Compensation Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §201, Work Comp L

2025-S8366 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Permits family leave benefits related to the active service of a spouse, domestic partner, child, or parent of the employee in the New York national guard during a declared state of emergency or other ordered active state service.

2025-S8366 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S8366 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8366
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               June 5, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sens.  SCARCELLA-SPANTON, ORTT -- read twice and ordered
   printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
 
 AN ACT to amend the workers' compensation law, in relation  to  coverage
   for  benefits  under family leave related to national guard deployment
   during a state of emergency

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1. Subdivision 15 of section 201 of the workers' compensation
 law, as added by section 2 of part SS of chapter 54 of the laws of 2016,
 is amended to read as follows:
   15. "Family leave" shall mean any leave  taken  by  an  employee  from
 work:    (a)  to  participate  in  providing care, including physical or
 psychological care, for a family member of the employee  made  necessary
 by  a serious health condition of the family member; or (b) to bond with
 the employee's child during the first twelve months  after  the  child's
 birth,  or  the first twelve months after the placement of the child for
 adoption or foster care with the employee; or (c) because of any  quali-
 fying exigency as interpreted under the family and medical leave act, 29
 U.S.C.S  §  2612(a)(1)(e) and 29 C.F.R. S.825.126(a)(1)-(8), arising out
 of the fact that the spouse, domestic partner, child, or parent  of  the
 employee is on active duty (or has been notified of an impending call or
 order  to  active duty) in the armed forces of the United States, OR HAS
 BEEN DEPLOYED TO ACTIVE SERVICE AS A MEMBER OF  THE  NEW  YORK  NATIONAL
 GUARD DUE TO A DECLARED STATE OF EMERGENCY UNDER SECTION TWENTY-EIGHT OF
 THE  EXECUTIVE  LAW OR ACTIVE SERVICE OF THE STATE ORDERED UNDER SECTION
 SIX OF THE MILITARY LAW.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD11642-02-5

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