New York S 8318: Defines the term "family leave" to include family members for purposes of sick leave and employee benefits when such employee is subject to quarantine or isolation due to COVID-19

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S08318 Summary:

BILL NOS08318 

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SAME ASSAME AS A08154

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SPONSORPARKER

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COSPNSR

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §169, Exec L; amd §1852, Pub Auth L

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Removes the salary of the chair of NYSERDA; allows the chair to engage in private employment.

Go to top S08318 Actions:

BILL NOS08318 

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06/02/2025REFERRED TO RULES

06/04/2025ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.1594

06/11/2025SUBSTITUTED BY A8154

&nbspA08154 AMEND= Braunstein

&nbsp05/02/2025referred to corporations, authorities and commissions

&nbsp05/06/2025reported referred to ways and means

&nbsp05/22/2025reported referred to rules

&nbsp05/27/2025reported 

&nbsp05/27/2025rules report cal.276

&nbsp05/27/2025ordered to third reading rules cal.276

&nbsp05/27/2025passed assembly

&nbsp05/27/2025delivered to senate

&nbsp05/27/2025REFERRED TO CORPORATIONS, AUTHORITIES AND COMMISSIONS

&nbsp06/11/2025SUBSTITUTED FOR S8318

&nbsp06/11/20253RD READING CAL.1594

&nbsp06/11/2025PASSED SENATE

&nbsp06/11/2025RETURNED TO ASSEMBLY

&nbsp11/03/2025delivered to governor

&nbsp11/12/2025signed chap.497

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 8318

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 June 2, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sen. PARKER -- (at request of the Energy Research Develop-
 ment Authority) -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to
 be committed to the Committee on Rules

 AN ACT to amend the executive law and the public authorities law, in
 relation to the chair of the New York state energy research and devel-
 opment authority

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

 1 Section 1. Paragraph (c) of subdivision 1 of section 169 of the execu-
 2 tive law, as amended by section 9 of part A of chapter 60 of the laws of
 3 2012, is amended to read as follows:
 4 (c) commissioner of agriculture and markets, commissioner of [alcohol-
 5 ism and substance abuse services] addiction services and supports, adju-
 6 tant general, commissioner and president of state civil service commis-
 7 sion, commissioner of economic development, [chair of the energy
 8 research and development authority,] president of higher education
 9 services corporation, commissioner of motor vehicles, member-chair of
 10 board of parole, chair of public employment relations board, secretary
 11 of state[, commissioner of alcoholism and substance abuse services],
 12 executive director of the housing finance agency, commissioner of hous-
 13 ing and community renewal, executive director of state insurance fund,
 14 commissioner-chair of state liquor authority, chair of the workers'
 15 compensation board;
 16 § 2. Subdivisions 4 and 5 of section 1852 of the public authorities
 17 law, subdivision 4 as amended by chapter 857 of the laws of 1977, and
 18 subdivision 5 as amended by chapter 196 of the laws of 1980, are amended
 19 to read as follows:
 20 4. The members, including the chair, shall serve without compensation
 21 for their services [as members], but they shall be entitled to
 22 reimbursement for their actual and necessary expenses incurred in the
 23 performance of their official duties.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD11797-02-5

 S. 8318 2

 1 5. Any member [(except the chairman), the commissioner of the depart-
 2 ment of environmental conservation and the chairman of the public
 3 service commission] may engage in private employment, or in a profession
 4 or business, subject to the limitations contained in sections seventy-
 5 three and seventy-four of the public officers law; provided however,
 6 that notwithstanding any other provision of law, the members of the
 7 authority who are officers of an electric utility or a utility primarily
 8 engaged in the distribution of gas shall not be prohibited from partic-
 9 ipating and voting on any bond issue of the authority relating to air
 10 and water pollution facilities for any utility other than for the utili-
 11 ties of which such member