New York A 84: Relates to increasing short-term disability benefits

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A00084 Summary:

BILL NOA00084 

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SAME ASNo Same As

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SPONSORSolages

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COSPNSRBronson, Pheffer Amato, Bichotte Hermelyn, Shrestha, Cruz, Steck, Shimsky, Burdick, Kim, Glick,
 Seawright, Forrest, Gonzalez-Rojas, Lunsford, Colton, Simon, Reyes, Rozic, Levenberg, Clark,
 Gallagher, Meeks, Valdez, Romero, Weprin, Hevesi, Taylor, Griffin, Brabenec, Burroughs, Alvarez,
 Slater, Woerner, Maher, Kelles, Bores, Lasher, Santabarbara, Gallahan, Sayegh, Simone, Fall,
 Angelino, Chludzinski, Giglio, Epstein, Kassay, Carroll R, Anderson, Rivera, McMahon, Carroll P,
 Wright, Tapia, Sempolinski, McDonough, Mitaynes, Kay, Torres, Schiavoni, Raga, Lupardo, Rosenthal,
 Benedetto, Paulin, Buttenschon, Zaccaro, Lavine, Bendett, Mamdani, Gibbs, Cunningham, Otis,
 Septimo, Lucas, Brown K, Stirpe, De Los Santos, Stern, Wieder, Eachus, Jacobson, Magnarelli,
 Chandler-Waterman, Zinerman

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MLTSPNSRDavila

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

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Relates to increasing short-term disability benefits.

Go to top A00084 Actions:

BILL NOA00084 

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01/08/2025referred to labor

01/07/2026referred to labor

01/16/2026enacting clause stricken

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Go to topA00084 Floor&nbspVotes:

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

Go to topA00084 Text:

 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 84

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 (Prefiled)

 January 8, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. SOLAGES, BRONSON, PHEFFER AMATO, BICHOTTE HERME-
 LYN, SHRESTHA, CRUZ, STECK, SHIMSKY, BURDICK, KIM, GLICK, SEAWRIGHT,
 FORREST -- read once and referred to the Committee on Labor

 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.
 15 15. "Family leave" shall mean any leave taken by an employee from
 16 work: (a) to participate in providing care, including physical or
 17 psychological care, for a family member of the employee made necessary
 18 by a serious health condition of the family member; or (b) to bond with
 19 the employee's child during the first twelve months after the child's
 20 birth, or the first twelve months after the placement of the child for
 21 adoption or foster care with the employee or on or after January first,
 22 two thousand twenty-six until January first, two thousand thirty, for
 23 the six weeks immediately following a stillbirth; or (c) because of any

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD00302-01-5

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 1 qualifying exigency as interpreted under the family and medical leave
 2 act, 29 U.S.C.S § 2612(a)(1)(e) and 29 C.F.R. S.825.126[(a)(1)-(8)],
 3 arising out of the fact that the spouse, domestic partner, child, or
 4 parent of the employee is on active duty (or has been notified of an
 5 impending call or order to active duty) in the armed forces of the
 6 United States.
 7 22. "Health care provider" shall mean for the purpose of [family
 8 leave] this article, a person licensed under article one hundred thir-
 9 ty-one, one hundred thirty-one-B, one hundred thirty-two, one hundred
 10 thirty-three, one hundred thirty-six, one hundred thirty-nine, one
 11 hundred forty-one, one hundred forty-three, one