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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Hi Ellen,
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">New York allows Paid Family Leave for the circumstance you described. Here are New York’s parent and child definitions for birth, foster care, and adoption bonding leaves. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">A child is defined as a biological, adopted, or foster son or daughter, a stepson or stepdaughter, a legal ward, a son or daughter of a domestic partner, or the person to whom
the employee stands in loco parentis. A parent is defined as a biological, foster, or adoptive parent, parent-in-law, a stepparent, a legal guardian, or other person who stood in loco parentis to the employee when the employee was a child</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Here is a link to additional information:
<a href="https://paidfamilyleave.ny.gov/employees">https://paidfamilyleave.ny.gov/employees</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Adam
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Adam Reinemann</span></b><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#458993">Department of Civil Service</span></b><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#458993"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Empire State Plaza, Agency Building 1, Albany, NY 12239</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">(518) 474-0789 l
</span><a href="mailto:Adam.Reinemann@cs.ny.gov"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:blue">Adam.Reinemann@cs.ny.gov</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.cs.ny.gov/"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:blue">www.cs.ny.gov</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> Zeller, Ellen <Ellen.Zeller@state.sd.us> <br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, June 28, 2021 11:03 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> NCASG (dhr_ncasg_survey_list@admws.idaho.gov) <dhr_ncasg_survey_list@admws.idaho.gov><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [NCASG] Paid Family Leave<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi All – <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">A quick question for any states who offer Paid Family Leave for employees who adopt a child. If your employee is a stepparent who is adopting a stepchild or stepchildren, would you allow paid family leave for that circumstance?
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<p class="MsoNormal">We have had a request to do so and our policy does not specifically make them ineligible, although one could say that was not the intent of paid family leave for adoption. Just hoping to get info on what other states who offer paid family
leave have done or would do. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks! And happy Monday!<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Ellen Zeller<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">Ellen Zeller</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"> |</span><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">Director HR Centers of Excellence</span></i><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">South Dakota Bureau of Human Resources<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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