Int 0508-2022
Requiring family building benefits for city employees.
IntroductionFiledCommittee on Healthintroduced 2022-06-02
Filed — closed without being enacted.
Official record · Legistar
Agenda: 2022-06-02Passed: 2023-12-31
Summary
This bill would require the City to establish a family building benefit for City employees intended to cover some or all of the costs of assisted reproduction and adoption for City employees without conditioning reimbursement on an infertility diagnosis. In implementing such benefits, the City would be prohibited from discriminating on the basis of marital or partnership status.
Committee on Health — Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, Office of the Chief Medical Examiner and EMS (health-related issues).
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This bill: 576 days in committee
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Sponsors (13)
Lifecycle
IntroducedIntroduced by Council
2022-06-02 · City Council
ActionReferred to Comm by Council
2022-06-02 · City Council
HeardHearing Held by Committee
2022-06-29 · Committee on Health
HeldLaid Over by Committee
2022-06-29 · Committee on Health
HeardHearing Held by Committee
2022-06-29 · Committee on Hospitals
HeldLaid Over by Committee
2022-06-29 · Committee on Hospitals
ClosedFiled (End of Session)
2023-12-31 · City Council
Heard at (3)
Committee on Hospitals · 2022-06-29 · 10:00 AM · HYBRID HEARING - Council Chambers - City Hall
Committee on Health · 2022-06-29 · 10:00 AM · HYBRID HEARING - Council Chambers - City Hall
City Council · 2022-06-02 · 1:30 PM · HYBRID HEARING - Council Chambers - City Hall
Attachments (8)
- Summary of Int. No. 508
- Int. No. 508
- June 2, 2022 - Stated Meeting Agenda
- Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 6-2-22
- Minutes of the Stated Meeting - June 2, 2022
- Committee Report 6/29/22
- Hearing Testimony 6/29/22
- Hearing Transcript 6/29/22
Full text
Be it enacted by the Council as follows:
Section 1. Chapter 1 of title 12 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new section 12-141 to read as follows:
� 12-141 Family building benefits for city employees. a. Definitions. For purposes of this section, the following terms have the following meanings:
"Adoption." The term "adoption" includes the range of services available to adults who intend to adopt a child, including agency and legal services related to the adoption of a child.
"Assisted reproduction." The term "assisted reproduction" includes the range of services and technologies to assist adults who intend to become parents, including, but not necessarily limited to: egg and sperm donation and preservation; in vitro fertilization; intrauterine insemination; surrogacy; and agency and legal services related to such services and technologies, as well as the establishment of parentage of a child.
"City employee." The term "city employee" means a person who: is employed by a department or agency of the city; and is paid out of the city treasury; and is employed under terms prescribing a work week regularly consisting of twenty or more hours during the fiscal year; and is not employed by the board of education.
b. The city shall offer family building benefits to city employees for the purpose of defraying the costs of assisted reproduction and adoption. Such benefits shall reimburse city employees for some or all of such costs when another city-provided health insurance plan does not cover them. The office of labor relations may enter into contracts with companies providing insurance coverage for such services and technologies for the purpose of meeting the requirements of this section.
c. The city shall not discriminate on the basis of marital or partnership status in meeting the requirements of this section. Family building benefits offered to city employees pursuant to this section shall not condition eligibility for such benefits on an infertility diagnosis.
d. This section does not affect the mayor's authority to bargain with certified employee organizations pursuant to chapter 3 of title 12 of the administrative code.
� 2. This local law takes effect immediately.
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