New York S 172: Increases short-term disability benefits

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S00172 Summary:

BILL NOS00172B

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SAME ASSAME AS A09571-A

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SPONSORRAMOS

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COSPNSRADDABBO, BYNOE, CLEARE, COMRIE, COONEY, FERNANDEZ, GONZALEZ, HARCKHAM, HINCHEY, HOYLMAN-SIGAL,
 JACKSON, MAYER, PARKER, RIVERA, RYAN C, SALAZAR, SCARCELLA-SPANTON, SERRANO, WEBB

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd Work Comp L, generally; amd §§4235 & 2605, Ins L

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Increases short-term disability benefits.

Go to top S00172 Actions:

BILL NOS00172B

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01/08/2025REFERRED TO LABOR

02/04/2025REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE

03/04/2025REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO RULES

03/04/2025ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.441

03/04/2025PASSED SENATE

03/04/2025DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY

03/05/2025referred to labor

01/07/2026died in assembly

01/07/2026returned to senate

01/07/2026REFERRED TO LABOR

01/14/2026AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO LABOR

01/14/2026PRINT NUMBER 172A

01/21/2026REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE

05/12/20261ST REPORT CAL.1034

05/13/20262ND REPORT CAL.

05/14/2026AMENDED 172B

05/14/2026ADVANCED TO THIRD READING 

06/04/2026PASSED SENATE

06/04/2026DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY

06/04/2026referred to labor

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There are no Assembly votes for this bill in this legislative session.

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 172--B
 Cal. No. 1034

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 (Prefiled)

 January 8, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sens. RAMOS, ADDABBO, BYNOE, CLEARE, COMRIE, COONEY,
 FERNANDEZ, GONZALEZ, HARCKHAM, HINCHEY, JACKSON, MAYER, PARKER,
 RIVERA, C. RYAN, SALAZAR, SCARCELLA-SPANTON, SERRANO, WEBB -- read
 twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the
 Committee on Labor -- recommitted to the Committee on Labor in accord-
 ance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill amended,
 ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee --
 reported favorably from said committee and committed to the Committee
 on Finance -- reported favorably from said committee, ordered to first
 and second report, amended on second report, ordered to a third read-
 ing, and to be reprinted as amended, retaining its place in the order
 of third reading

 AN ACT to amend the workers' compensation law and the insurance
 law, in relation to increasing short-term disability benefits

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

 1 Section 1. Section 200 of the workers' compensation law, as amended by
 2 section 1 of part SS of chapter 54 of the laws of 2016, is amended to
 3 read as follows:
 4 § 200. Short title. This article shall be known and may be cited as
 5 the "disability [benefits law] and [the] paid family leave benefits
 6 law."
 7 § 2. Subdivisions 14, 15 and 22 of section 201 of the workers' compen-
 8 sation law, subdivision 14 as amended and subdivisions 15 and 22 as
 9 added by section 2 of part SS of chapter 54 of the laws of 2016, are
 10 amended to read as follows:
 11 14. "A day of disability" means any day on which the employee was
 12 prevented from performing work because of disability[, including any day
 13 which the employee uses for family leave,] and for which the employee
 14 has not received [his or her] the employee's regular remuneration.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD00302-05-6

 S. 172--B 2

 1 15. "Family leave" shall mean any leave taken by an employee from
 2 work: (a) to participate in providing care, including physical or
 3 psychological care, for a family member of the employee made necessary
 4 by a serious health condition of the family member; or (b) to bond with
 5 the employee's child during the first twelve months after the child's
 6 birth, or the first twelve months after the placement of the child for
 7 adoption or foster care with the employee or on or after January first,
 8 two thousand twenty-seven until January first, two thousand thirty-one,
 9 for the six weeks immediately following a pregnancy loss at or after
 10 twenty weeks of gestation if the employee who experienced the pregnancy
 11 loss would have been deemed eligible to take family leave benefits under
 12 this article based on an expected birth