New York S 5285: Authorizes additional paid leave for health related services for certain employees

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S05285 Summary:

BILL NOS05285 

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SAME ASSAME AS A06280

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SPONSORSEPULVEDA

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COSPNSR

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §1303, SCPA

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Relates to persons who may become a voluntary administrator; includes fiduciaries of a deceased distributee, or a competent adult who is not a distributee upon the filed consent of all competent distributees as persons who can become a voluntary administrator prior to the chief fiscal officer of the county becoming such.

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BILL NOS05285 

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02/20/2025REFERRED TO JUDICIARY

04/07/20251ST REPORT CAL.637

04/08/20252ND REPORT CAL.

04/09/2025ADVANCED TO THIRD READING 

05/12/2025PASSED SENATE

05/12/2025DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY

05/12/2025referred to judiciary

01/07/2026died in assembly

01/07/2026returned to senate

01/07/2026REFERRED TO JUDICIARY

02/04/20261ST REPORT CAL.243

02/05/20262ND REPORT CAL.

02/09/2026ADVANCED TO THIRD READING 

02/11/2026PASSED SENATE

02/11/2026DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY

02/11/2026referred to judiciary

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 5285

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 February 20, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sen. SEPULVEDA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
 printed to be committed to the Committee on Judiciary

 AN ACT to amend the surrogate's court procedure act, in relation to
 persons who may become a voluntary administrator

 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
 bly, do enact as follows:

 1 Section 1. Subdivision (a) of section 1303 of the surrogate's court
 2 procedure act, as amended by chapter 281 of the laws of 1995, is amended
 3 to read as follows:
 4 (a) If the deceased dies intestate, the right to act as a voluntary
 5 administrator is hereby given [first to the surviving adult spouse, if
 6 any, of the decedent and if there be none or if the spouse renounce,
 7 then in order to a competent adult who is a child or] in the following
 8 order to a competent adult distributee who is the surviving spouse,
 9 child, grandchild, parent, [brother or sister, niece or nephew or aunt
 10 or uncle] sibling, child of a sibling or sibling of a parent of the
 11 decedent, or if there be no such person who will act, then to the guard-
 12 ian of the property of an infant, the committee of the property of [any]
 13 an incompetent person or the conservator of the property of a conserva-
 14 tee who is a distributee, the fiduciary of a deceased distributee, or to
 15 a competent adult who is not a distributee upon the filed consents of
 16 all competent adult distributees, and if none of the foregoing named
 17 persons will act or if there are no known distributees within the cate-
 18 gories listed above, then to the chief fiscal officer of the county
 19 except in those counties in which a public administrator has been
 20 appointed under articles eleven and twelve of this act. [After the
 21 surviving spouse, the first distributee within the class of persons
 22 entitled or if no distributee will act or there are no known distribu-
 23 tees within the class of persons entitled, then the chief fiscal officer
 24 of the county as above who makes and files the required affidavit,] Upon
 25 filing the required affidavit, the person having the right to act is

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD09894-01-5

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 1 authorized to act as voluntary administrator, or as successor voluntary
 2 administrator in the event of the death or resignation of the voluntary
 3 administrator before the completion of the settlement of the estate.
 4 § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
 5 have become a law.

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