S3054 • 2025

Provides benefits to Metro-North employees involved in or who witness a serious injury or fatality of another person in the course of an assigned duty

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Sponsor: Pete Harckham
Last action: 2026-05-19
Official status: In Senate Committee
Effective date: Not listed

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Provides benefits to Metro-North employees involved in or who witness a serious injury or fatality of another person in the course of an assigned duty

Provides benefits to Metro-North employees involved in or who witness a serious injury or fatality of another person in the course of an assigned duty Provides benefits to Metro-North employees involved in or who witness a serious injury or fatality of another person in the course of an assigned duty.

What This Bill Does

Provides benefits to Metro-North employees involved in or who witness a serious injury or fatality of another person in the course of an assigned duty Provides benefits to Metro-North employees involved in or who witness a serious injury or fatality of another person in the course of an assigned duty.

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Bill History

2026-05-19 Senate
REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE
2026-01-07 Senate
REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION
2025-01-23 Senate
REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION

Official Summary Text

Provides benefits to Metro-North employees involved in or who witness a serious injury or fatality of another person in the course of an assigned duty
Provides benefits to Metro-North employees involved in or who witness a serious injury or fatality of another person in the course of an assigned duty.

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S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                          3054

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                                    I N  S E N A T E

                                    January 23, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by Sen. HARCKHAM -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation

        AN ACT to amend the public authorities law,  in  relation  to  providing
          benefits to Metro-North employees involved in or who witness a serious
          injury or fatality of another person in the course of an assigned duty

          THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
        BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

     1    Section 1. The public authorities law  is  amended  by  adding  a  new
     2  section 1266-n to read as follows:
     3    §  1266-N.  BENEFITS  FOR EMPLOYEES INVOLVED IN OR WHO WITNESS SERIOUS
     4  INJURIES OR FATALITIES OF ANOTHER PERSON IN THE COURSE  OF  AN  ASSIGNED
     5  DUTY.  1.  FOR ANY EMPLOYEE OF THE METRO-NORTH COMMUTER RAILROAD COMPANY
     6  WHO WITNESSES OR IS OTHERWISE INVOLVED IN A SERIOUS INJURY  OR  FATALITY
     7  OF  ANOTHER  PERSON THROUGH THE COURSE OF SUCH EMPLOYEE'S ASSIGNED DUTY,
     8  METRO-NORTH SHALL PROVIDE MANDATORY BENEFITS, INCLUDING BUT NOT  LIMITED
     9  TO:
    10    (A)  SEVEN CONSECUTIVE WORKING DAYS OF PAID LEAVE, BEGINNING THE IMME-
    11  DIATE SUBSEQUENT DAY THE EMPLOYEE IS SCHEDULED TO  WORK,  EXCLUDING  THE
    12  EMPLOYEE'S REGULARLY SCHEDULED DAYS OFF;
    13    (B) MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES, INCLUDING COUNSELING, AT THE OPTION OF THE
    14  EMPLOYEE; AND
    15    (C)  A MANDATORY MENTAL HEALTH EXAMINATION CONDUCTED BY THE EMPLOYEE'S
    16  HEALTH CARE PROVIDER BEFORE BEING APPROVED TO RETURN TO WORK, WITH UP TO
    17  FOUR ADDITIONAL WEEKS OF PAID LEAVE, IF RECOMMENDED BY THEIR HEALTH CARE
    18  PROVIDER.
    19    2. SUCH EMPLOYEE SHALL BE COMPENSATED BY METRO-NORTH AT AN AMOUNT  NOT
    20  LESS  THAN  THE  EMPLOYEE WOULD HAVE EARNED ON THE ASSIGNMENT THEY WOULD
    21  HAVE WORKED UNTIL  SUCH  EMPLOYEE  HAS  USED  THEIR  FULL  ALLOTMENT  OF
    22  MANDATED TIME OFF PURSUANT TO THIS SECTION.
    23    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD07165-01-5