A 244: Requires every employer to provide each employee with the equivalent number of hours as three full work days for such employee of paid sick leave for a miscarriage or stillbirth of an infant born to the employee.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 244 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY (Prefiled) January 8, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. DILAN -- read once and referred to the Committee on Labor AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to requiring employers to provide paid sick leave to employees following a miscarriage or still- birth The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 196-b of the labor law is amended by adding a new 2 subdivision 1-a to read as follows: 3 1-a. In addition to any other requirements of this section, every 4 employer shall be required to provide each employee with the equivalent 5 number of hours as three full work days for such employee of paid sick 6 leave for a miscarriage or stillbirth of an infant born to the employee. 7 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD01343-01-5