NEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLY MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT OF LEGISLATION submitted in accordance with Assembly Rule III, Sec 1(f)
BILL NUMBER: A6259
SPONSOR: Brabenec TITLE OF BILL:
An act to amend chapter 25 of the laws of 2020, providing requirements
for sick leave and the provision of certain employee benefits when such
employee is subject to a mandatory or precautionary order of quarantine
or isolation due to COVID-19, in relation to exempting daycare facility
and childcare facility employers from providing for COVID-19 sick leave
PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL:
This bill would exempt daycare and childcare facility employers from the
obligation of providing sick pay for Covid 19 related illnesses to
employees.
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:
This bill amends chapter 25 of the laws of 2020, exempting the above
mentioned facility employers from providing sick leave to those affected
by Covid-19 illness.
JUSTIFICATION:
The, child care and daycare facilities at first are having difficulty
first and foremost. finding employees, then being obligated to pay an
equally qualified employee as well as the sick pay is essentially doubl-
ing the wage,
PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:
2024: A6407 Referred to Labor
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS FOR STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS:
None
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect immediately.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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6259
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 27, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. BRABENEC -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Labor
AN ACT to amend chapter 25 of the laws of 2020, providing requirements
for sick leave and the provision of certain employee benefits when
such employee is subject to a mandatory or precautionary order of
quarantine or isolation due to COVID-19, in relation to exempting
daycare facility and childcare facility employers from providing for
COVID-19 sick leave
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 1 of chapter 25 of the laws of
2 2020, providing requirements for sick leave and the provision of certain
3 employee benefits when such employee is subject to a mandatory or
4 precautionary order of quarantine or isolation due to COVID-19, is
5 amended by adding a new paragraph (f) to read as follows:
6 (f) Daycare facility or childcare facility employers are exempt from
7 the requirement of this chapter to provide paid sick leave to their
8 employees.
9 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately; provided, however, that
10 the amendments to section 1 of chapter 25 of the laws of 2020, providing
11 requirements for sick leave and the provision of certain employee bene-
12 fits when such employee is subject to a mandatory or precautionary order
13 of quarantine or isolation due to COVID-19, made by section one of this
14 act shall expire on the same date as such section and shall be deemed
15 repealed therewith.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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