Bill Text: NY A08240 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 8240 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Relates to claims for mental injury premised upon extraordinary work-related stress incurred at work; applies to all workers.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - referred to labor [A08240 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A08240-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8240
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                      June 2, 2017
                                       ___________
        Introduced by M. of A. ABBATE -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Labor
        AN ACT to amend the workers' compensation law, in relation to claims for
          mental injury premised upon extraordinary work-related stress
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 3 of section 10 of  the  work-
     2  ers' compensation law, as added by section 1 of subpart I of part NNN of
     3  chapter 59 of the laws of 2017, is amended to read as follows:
     4    (b)  Where  a [police officer or firefighter subject to section thirty
     5  of this article, or emergency medical technician,  paramedic,  or  other
     6  person  certified  to  provide medical care in emergencies, or emergency
     7  dispatcher] worker  files  a  claim  for  mental  injury  premised  upon
     8  extraordinary work-related stress incurred [in a work-related emergency]
     9  at  work,  the  board may not disallow the claim, upon a factual finding
    10  that the stress was not greater than that which usually  occurs  in  the
    11  normal work environment.
    12    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11828-01-7