Bill Text: NY A08328 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides for equitable disability policies; prohibits any difference, on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, marital status, or national origin in the amount or payment of premiums or rate charges, or in the benefits payable, or in any of the other terms or conditions of any policy of disability insurance under the workers' compensation law.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to labor [A08328 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A08328-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8328

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      June 14, 2019
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. WOERNER -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Labor

        AN ACT to amend the workers' compensation law, in relation to  providing
          equitable disability policies

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

     1    Section 1. Section 226 of the workers' compensation law is amended  by
     2  adding a new subdivision 8-a to read as follows:
     3    8-a.  No  insurance  carrier  or  the state insurance fund who issues,
     4  reinstates, amends or endorses any contract of insurance or rider there-
     5  to providing the benefits required to be paid under this  article  shall
     6  make  or  permit  any  distinction,  classification,  discrimination, or
     7  otherwise recognize any difference, on the basis of race,  color,  reli-
     8  gion,  sex, marital status, or national origin, in the amount or payment
     9  of premiums or rate charges, or in the benefits payable, or  in  any  of
    10  the  other  terms or conditions of any policy of insurance providing the
    11  benefits required to be  paid  under  this  article.  As  used  in  this
    12  section, sex includes, but is not limited to, conditions unique to one's
    13  sex, such as pregnancy.
    14    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13306-01-9