What's happening
This bill extends protections for healthcare professionals taking authorized absences to fight Ebola overseas until December 1, 2021.
Why it matters
Provides job security for healthcare professionals. who volunteer for Ebola response overseas, reducing the risk of losing employment due to their absence for humanitarian work.
Encourages more qualified medical personnel. to participate in global public health efforts, knowing state law protects their positions during their service.
Signals ongoing state support for international health crises. by acknowledging that threats like Ebola persist and require continued engagement from New York’s healthcare workforce.
Aligns workplace rights with public health priorities. , reinforcing that supporting such volunteers benefits both global health and the local community by fostering experienced, globally engaged clinicians.
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Who cares
Healthcare professionals volunteering overseas
The bill would extend the law governing authorized absences to fight Ebola overseas from December 1, 2018, to December 1, 2021.
Employers of healthcare professionals
The bill would keep the authorized-absence law in effect for three additional years, affecting how they handle absences for overseas Ebola volunteer work.
New York State Department of Labor
The department requested the bill, which would extend the law without changing the December 1, 2016, expiration of subdivision four of Labor Law section 202-m.
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Extend Ebola Volunteer Leave
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History
- Signed chap.330
- Delivered to governor
- Returned to assembly
- Passed senateVote 62–0
- 3rd reading cal.1969
- Substituted for S8757
- Referred to rules
- Delivered to senate
- Passed assembly
- Ordered to third reading rules cal.78
- Rules report cal.78
- Reported
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- Reported referred to rules
- Referred to labor
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Extend Ebola Volunteer Leave
Senate Floor Calendar · Sponsor Kemp Hannon
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STATE OF NEW YORK
11020
IN ASSEMBLY
May 31, 2018
Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Epstein) -- (at request of the Department of Labor) -- read once and referred to the Committee on Labor
AN ACT to amend chapter 56 of the laws of 2015, amending the labor law relating to authorized absences by healthcare professionals who volunteer to fight the Ebola virus disease overseas, in relation to extending the effectiveness of such chapter
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Section 2 of part O of chapter 56 of the laws of 2015, amending the labor law relating to authorized absences by healthcare professionals who volunteer to fight the Ebola virus disease overseas is amended to read as follows:
§ 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall have become a law; provided, however, that subdivision four of section 202-m of the labor law, as added by section one of this act, shall expire and be deemed repealed December 1, 2016, and provided, further that this act shall expire and be deemed repealed December 1, [2018] 2021.
§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD14417-01-8
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