---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relates to sick leave for officers and employees with a qualifying World Trade Center condition"
description: "Relates to sick leave for officers and employees with a qualifying World Trade Center condition."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ny"
legislature: "New York Legislature"
session: "2019-2020"
identifier: "S 5890"
citation: "New York S 5890 (2019-2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["GOUNARDES"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 15
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2019-05-16"
last_action: "2019-09-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bdc9cfb2-122a-4070-b441-b292c893c651"
source_url: "http://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2019/S5890"
source_hash: "70359290132100a8056443c021f937f2e24c7f99b44570181c424581f7de4417"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ny"]
---

# New York S 5890 (2019-2020) — Relates to sick leave for officers and employees with a qualifying World Trade Center condition

Relates to sick leave for officers and employees with a qualifying World Trade Center condition.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **S5890** (committee substitute) — [source](http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?sh=printbill&bn=S5890&term=2019&Text=Y)
2. **S5890A** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legislation.nysenate.gov/pdf/bills/2019/S5890A)

## Votes

- Assembly Vote — **135–0** (pass) · lower
- Floor Vote - Version: A — **62–0** (pass) · upper
- Rules Vote - Version: A — **19–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- GOUNARDES — primary (person)
- BIAGGI — cosponsor (person)
- JACKSON — cosponsor (person)
- KAPLAN — cosponsor (person)
- LIU — cosponsor (person)
- MAYER — cosponsor (person)
- METZGER — cosponsor (person)
- SKOUFIS — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2019-05-16** REFERRED TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-31** AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT `referral-committee, amendment-passage`
- **2019-05-31** PRINT NUMBER 5890A `amendment-passage`
- **2019-06-13** COMMITTEE DISCHARGED AND COMMITTED TO RULES `referral-committee`
- **2019-06-13** ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.1351
- **2019-06-13** PASSED SENATE `passage`
- **2019-06-13** DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
- **2019-06-13** REFERRED TO WAYS AND MEANS `referral-committee`
- **2019-06-20** SUBSTITUTED FOR A7819A
- **2019-06-20** ORDERED TO THIRD READING RULES CAL.693
- **2019-06-20** PASSED ASSEMBLY `passage`
- **2019-06-20** RETURNED TO SENATE
- **2019-09-11** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR `executive-receipt`
- **2019-09-11** SIGNED CHAP.251 `executive-signature`
- **2019-09-11** APPROVAL MEMO.5

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/bdc9cfb2-122a-4070-b441-b292c893c651`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New York legislature records).