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Senate Bill S8892

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to the use of paid sick leave for bereavement purposes

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2025-S8892 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A9158
Current Committee:
Senate Labor
Law Section:
Labor Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §196-b, Lab L

2025-S8892 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Allows an employee to use paid sick leave for bereavement upon the death of a family member, or upon pregnancy loss by the employee or the employee's spouse or domestic partner or upon a foster child leaving a foster family provided the foster child was in the care of the foster family for six months or longer.

2025-S8892 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S8892 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8892
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 13, 2026
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by Sen. FERNANDEZ -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Labor
 
 AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to the use of paid sick leave
   for bereavement purposes
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Section 196-b of the labor law is amended by adding  a  new
 subdivision 4-b to read as follows:
   4-B.  (A)  ON  AND  AFTER JANUARY FIRST, TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-SEVEN AND
 UPON THE ORAL OR WRITTEN REQUEST  OF  AN  EMPLOYEE,  AN  EMPLOYER  SHALL
 PROVIDE ACCRUED SICK LEAVE FOR THE FOLLOWING PURPOSES:
   (I)  FOR  BEREAVEMENT UPON THE DEATH OF A FAMILY MEMBER, OR UPON PREG-
 NANCY LOSS BY THE EMPLOYEE OR THE EMPLOYEE'S SPOUSE OR DOMESTIC PARTNER;
 OR
   (II) UPON A FOSTER CHILD LEAVING A FOSTER FAMILY PROVIDED  THE  FOSTER
 CHILD WAS IN THE CARE OF THE FOSTER FAMILY FOR SIX MONTHS OR LONGER.
   (B)  IF  THE EMPLOYEE HAS USED THEIR ALLOTTED PAID SICK HOURS FOR THAT
 CALENDAR YEAR, SUCH EMPLOYEE SHALL BE ALLOWED TO TAKE UNPAID  SICK  TIME
 IN AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED FIVE DAYS.
   § 2. This act shall take effect January 1, 2027.
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD13888-02-5

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