STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 4463 2025-2026 Regular Sessions IN SENATE February 5, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sens. MAYER, WEBB -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Labor AN ACT to amend the workers' compensation law, in relation to providing for paid family leave following a stillbirth The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 15 of section 201 of the workers' compensation 2 law, as added by section 2 of part SS of chapter 54 of the laws of 2016, 3 is amended to read as follows: 4 15. "Family leave" shall mean any leave taken by an employee from 5 work: (a) to participate in providing care, including physical or 6 psychological care, for a family member of the employee made necessary 7 by a serious health condition of the family member; [or] (b) to bond 8 with the employee's child during the first twelve months after the 9 child's birth, or the first twelve months after the placement of the 10 child for adoption or foster care with the employee; [or] (c) to recover 11 after a stillbirth; or (d) because of any qualifying exigency as inter- 12 preted under the family and medical leave act, 29 U.S.C.S § 13 2612(a)(1)(e) and 29 C.F.R. S.825.126(a)(1)-(8), arising out of the fact 14 that the spouse, domestic partner, child, or parent of the employee is 15 on active duty (or has been notified of an impending call or order to 16 active duty) in the armed forces of the United States. 17 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of January following the 18 first of September next succeeding the date on which it shall have 19 become a law and shall apply to all policies or contracts issued, 20 renewed, modified, altered or amended on or after such date. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD02359-01-5