File #: Int 0215-2026    Version: * Name: Extending reasonable workplace accommodations to caregivers.
Type: Introduction Status: Committee
Committee: Committee on Civil and Human Rights
On agenda: 1/29/2026
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to extending reasonable workplace accommodations to caregivers
Sponsors: Kamillah Hanks, Farah N. Louis, Gale A. Brewer, Crystal Hudson, Selvena N. Brooks-Powers, Shahana K. Hanif, Sandy Nurse, Shanel Thomas-Henry , Lynn C. Schulman
Council Member Sponsors: 9
Summary: This bill would extend the right to reasonable workplace accommodations to caregivers, as defined in the New York City Human Rights Law. The bill would also require employers to participate in cooperative dialogue regarding the caregiver’s reasonable accommodations.
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 215, 2. Int. No. 215, 3. January 29, 2026 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 4. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 1-29-26, 5. Memorandum in Support

Int. No. 215

 

By Council Members Hanks, Louis, Brewer, Hudson, Brooks-Powers, Hanif, Nurse, Thomas-Henry and Schulman

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to extending reasonable workplace accommodations to caregivers

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

Section 1. Subdivision 15 of section 8-107 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as amended by local law number 63 for the year 2018, is amended to read as follows:

15. Applicability; persons with disabilities and caregivers. (a) Requirement to make reasonable accommodations to the needs of person with disabilities and caregivers. Except as provided in paragraph (b), it is an unlawful discriminatory practice for any person prohibited by the provision of this section from discriminating on the basis of disability not to provide a reasonable accommodation to enable a person with a disability or a caregiver to satisfy the essential requisites of a job or enjoy the right or rights in question provided that the disability is known or should have been known by the covered entity.

§ 2. Subparagraph (2) of paragraph (a) of subdivision 28 of section 8-107 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as amended by local law number 59 for the year 2018, is amended to read as follows:

(2) Related to a disability or caregiver status as provided in subdivision 15 of this section;

§ 3. This local law takes effect 120 days after it becomes law.

 

 

 

 

 

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