Local law · Int 1368-2025
Requiring specified employers to provide paid time off to their employees for bereavement following any firearm related death of a family member of the employee
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A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring specified employers to provide paid time off to their employees for bereavement following any firearm related death of a family member of the employee
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New York City Council
Sponsor
Rafael Salamanca, Jr.
Summary
This bill would amend the City’s Earned Safe and Sick Time Act adding paid bereavement time when any family member of an employee dies from a firearm related death. The time would be paid at the employee’s regular pay rate and would be in addition to the employee’s accrual or use of existing safe/sick time. It would be required to be paid by the next regular pay date. Within certain limits, an employer could require that within 7 days an employee provide documentation that the death occurred. An employer could not require the employee to work additional hours to make up for the original hours the employee was unavailable, or find a replacement employee to cover their hours, due to the employee’s use of the time. The bill would provide relief and penalties for a failure to provide this time. The local law would take effect 120 days after it becomes law except that the Commissioner of the Department of Consumer and Worker Protection would be required to promulgate rules as necessary to give effect to the law prior to this date.
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Where it stands
The session ended before it was voted on. It was not defeated; it simply ran out of time, which is what happens to most legislation. It would have to be reintroduced.
- Introduced
- In committee
- Up for a vote
- Passed one chamber
- Passed
- Enacted
Committee
Committee on Consumer and Worker Protection
Cosponsors
Farah N. Louis, Tiffany L. Cabán and 22 others
Cosponsors in the order the New York City Council lists them.
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- Farah N. Louis
- Tiffany L. Cabán
- Nantasha M. Williams
- Chi A. Ossé
- Pierina Ana Sanchez
- Susan Zhuang
- Selvena N. Brooks-Powers
- Oswald J. Feliz
- Shahana K. Hanif
- Sandra Ung
- Alexa Avilés
- Althea V. Stevens
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Full history
- Dec 31, 2025
Filed
This Introduction was Filed (End of Session)
NYC Council
- Nov 24, 2025
Hearing held
This Introduction was Hearing Held by Committee
Committee on Consumer and Worker Protection
- Nov 24, 2025
Hearing held
This Introduction was Hearing Held by Committee
Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure
- Nov 24, 2025
Held over
This Introduction was Laid Over by Committee
Committee on Consumer and Worker Protection
- Nov 24, 2025
Held over
This Introduction was Laid Over by Committee
Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure
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- Aug 14, 2025
Introduced
This Introduction was Introduced by Council
NYC Council
- Aug 14, 2025
Referred to committee
This Introduction was Referred to Comm by Council to the Committee on Consumer and Worker Protection
NYC Council