Bill Text: NY A08197 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides an insurance premium reduction for landscape businesses whose employees complete a safety course for the landscape industry.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to labor [A08197 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A08197-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8197

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      June 7, 2019
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. STIRPE -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Labor

        AN  ACT to amend the workers' compensation law, in relation to providing
          an insurance premium reduction for landscape businesses whose  employ-
          ees complete a safety course for the landscape industry

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. The workers' compensation law is amended by  adding  a  new
     2  section 138 to read as follows:
     3    §  138.  Occupational safety and health administration course; premium
     4  reduction. 1. For purposes of this section, the  term  "landscape  busi-
     5  ness" shall mean a business whose primary concern involves the modifica-
     6  tion  of the visible features of an area of land, and shall include, but
     7  not be limited to, lawn care, gardening and the removal  or  pruning  of
     8  trees.
     9    2.  Notwithstanding  any  other  provision of law to the contrary, any
    10  insurer doing business within this state  who  offers  workers'  compen-
    11  sation  insurance  to  landscape  businesses  doing business within this
    12  state shall provide a ten percent reduction in  its  premiums  for  such
    13  insurance  to  any  landscape  business  that meets the requirements set
    14  forth in subdivision three of this section.
    15    3. Any person, firm, partnership, limited  liability  company,  corpo-
    16  ration  or  any  other  business  entity  shall  receive  a  ten percent
    17  reduction in its workers' compensation premium for  any  year  in  which
    18  fifty  percent  or  more  of the employees of such business successfully
    19  complete the ten hour construction safety  course  for  the  landscaping
    20  industry  approved by the occupational safety and health administration.
    21  Such premium reduction shall be available on an annual  basis.  Applica-
    22  tion  for  such  premium  reduction shall be made in a manner and with a
    23  standardized form to be developed cooperatively between the  commission-

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11346-01-9
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     1  ers  of  the  state  insurance  fund,  the commissioner of labor and the
     2  superintendent of financial services.
     3    4.  The commissioners of the state insurance fund, in cooperation with
     4  the commissioner of labor and the superintendent of financial  services,
     5  are  authorized  to promulgate rules and regulations necessary to imple-
     6  ment the provisions of this section.
     7    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
     8  it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition,  amend-
     9  ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen-
    10  tation  of  this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and
    11  completed on or before such date.