All Roll Calls
Yes: 214 • No: 1
New YorkS 87952025-2026 Regular SessionSenateWALLET
Extends paid family leave benefits to certain construction employees
Sponsored By: Leroy Comrie (Democratic)
Signed by Governor
RULESLABOR
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Bill Overview
Analyzed Economic Effects
2 provisions identified: 2 benefits, 0 costs, 0 mixed.
More leave benefits for construction workers
Beginning January 1, 2027, the law expands paid family leave for construction employees working for multiple employers under a union contract. Covered work includes construction, demolition, reconstruction, excavation, rehabilitation, repairs, renovations, alterations, and improvements. Workers qualify after working an employer’s normal work week for at least 26 of the last 39 weeks. They can count work with any covered employer that has signed a union contract. Benefits come through the covered employer immediately before leave, and family leave eligibility lasts only while employed by a covered employer. Workers who already meet the work requirement qualify immediately upon returning from an agreed unpaid leave or vacation. This also applies when they return after a layoff while receiving unemployment benefits, including returns to a different covered employer. Disability eligibility continues during covered employment and for four weeks after employment ends. Starting another covered job within those four weeks gives immediate disability eligibility. For regular schedules shorter than one employer’s normal work week, disability eligibility starts on day 25 and family leave eligibility on day 175. Workers eligible for both benefits are not treated as having ended employment during periods of benefit eligibility.
Construction workers keep health coverage during leave
Beginning January 1, 2027, employers must maintain existing health benefits during family leave as if employees kept working. Construction workers’ existing union health plan or fund benefits stay in place during family leave until they return to employment. Union contracts can add terms about health contributions during leave or counting leave time toward health-plan eligibility. Those terms cannot conflict with the law’s coverage protection.
Sponsors & Cosponsors
Sponsor
Leroy Comrie
Democratic • Senate
Cosponsors
There are no cosponsors for this bill.
Roll Call Votes
Senate vote • 1/21/2026
FLOOR Vote
Yes: 55 • No: 1
House vote • 1/21/2026
Assembly floor vote
Yes: 139 • No: 0
committee vote • 1/12/2026
Rules Committee Vote
Yes: 20 • No: 0
Actions Timeline
SIGNED CHAP.72
2/13/2026SenateDELIVERED TO GOVERNOR
2/13/2026SenateRETURNED TO SENATE
1/21/2026HousePASSED ASSEMBLY
1/21/2026HouseORDERED TO THIRD READING RULES CAL.46
1/21/2026HouseSUBSTITUTED FOR A9466
1/21/2026HouseREFERRED TO LABOR
1/21/2026HouseDELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
1/21/2026SenatePASSED SENATE
1/21/2026SenateORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.27
1/12/2026SenateREFERRED TO RULES
1/8/2026Senate
Bill Text
Original
1/8/2026
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