New York A 3256: Requires employers to notify employees if they come into contact with other employees who have been infected with a virus that is causing a public health emergency

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A03256 Summary:

BILL NOA03256 

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SAME ASNo Same As

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SPONSORDinowitz

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COSPNSRJacobson

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Add §202-n, Lab L

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Requires employers to notify employees if they come into contact with other employees who have been diagnosed in relation to a disease outbreak causing a public health emergency; prohibits employers from disclosing the name of the diagnosed employee.

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BILL NOA03256 

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01/27/2025referred to labor

01/07/2026referred to labor

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 3256

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 January 27, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. DINOWITZ, JACOBSON -- read once and referred to
 the Committee on Labor

 AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to requiring employers to
 notify employees if they come into contact with other employees who
 have been diagnosed in relation to a disease outbreak causing a public
 health emergency

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

 1 Section 1. The labor law is amended by adding a new section 202-n to
 2 read as follows:
 3 § 202-n. Public health emergencies; notification of contact. 1. When
 4 a federal, state, or local state of emergency has been declared due to a
 5 disease outbreak causing a public health emergency and an employer has
 6 reasonable knowledge that an employee has been diagnosed with the
 7 disease causing such public health emergency, the employer shall notify
 8 each employee who has had contact with the diagnosed employee within
 9 twenty-four hours of such knowledge, provided such disclosure is author-
 10 ized by federal and/or state law or regulation; provided, however, that
 11 the employer shall not reveal the name of the diagnosed employee; and
 12 provided further, however, that such notification shall be provided in
 13 writing, in English and in the employee's primary language. This
 14 section shall not apply to an employer with ten or fewer employees.
 15 2. The commissioner shall prepare templates of such notification and
 16 shall determine, in their discretion, which languages to provide in
 17 addition to English, based on the size of the New York state population
 18 that speaks each language and any other factor that the commissioner
 19 shall deem relevant. All such templates shall be made available to
 20 employers in such manner as determined by the commissioner. When an
 21 employee identifies as their primary language a language for which a
 22 template is not available from the commissioner, the employer shall
 23 comply with this subdivision by providing such employee an English-lan-
 24 guage notice.
 25 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD07105-01-5

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