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Senate Bill S9560

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Includes certain persons engaged in a professional or teaching capacity in or for a religious, charitable or educational institution as employees for purposes of eligibility for paid family leave

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2025-S9560 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A9071
Current Committee:
Senate Labor
Law Section:
Workers' Compensation Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §201, Work Comp L

2025-S9560 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Includes certain persons engaged in a professional or teaching capacity in or for a religious, charitable or educational institution as employees for purposes of eligibility for paid family leave.

2025-S9560 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S9560 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   9560
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              March 25, 2026
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. C. RYAN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Labor
 
 AN ACT to amend the workers' compensation law, in relation to  including
   certain  persons  engaged in a professional or teaching capacity in or
   for a religious, charitable or educational  institution  as  employees
   for purposes of eligibility for paid family leave

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. The opening paragraph of subdivision 5 of  section  201  of
 the  workers' compensation law, as amended by chapter 481 of the laws of
 2010, is amended to read as follows:
   "Employee" means a person engaged in the service of an employer in any
 employment defined in subdivision six of this section,  except  a  minor
 child of the employer, except a duly ordained, commissioned, or licensed
 minister,  priest  or  rabbi,  a  sexton, a christian science reader, or
 member of a religious order, or an executive officer  of  a  corporation
 who  at  all times during the period involved owns all of the issued and
 outstanding stock of the corporation and holds all of the offices pursu-
 ant to paragraph (e) of section seven hundred fifteen  of  the  business
 corporation  law  or  two executive officers of a corporation who at all
 times during the period involved between them own all of the issued  and
 outstanding  stock  of  such  corporation  and  hold  all  such  offices
 provided, however, that each officer must own  at  least  one  share  of
 stock, except as provided in section two hundred twelve of this article,
 or  an  executive  officer  of  an incorporated religious, charitable or
 educational institution, or persons engaged in a professional or  teach-
 ing  capacity  in or for a religious, charitable or educational institu-
 tion, or volunteers in or for a  religious,  charitable  or  educational
 institution,  or  persons  participating in and receiving rehabilitative
 services in a sheltered workshop operated by a religious, charitable  or
 educational  institution under a certificate issued by the United States
 department of labor, or recipients of charitable aid from a religious or
 charitable institution who perform work in or for the institution  which
 is  incidental  to  or in return for the aid conferred, and not under an
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

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