Bill Text: NY S03922 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended


Bill Title: Relates to attachment to the labor market in temporary partial disability cases.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-04-06 - PRINT NUMBER 3922A [S03922 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S03922-Amended.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                         3922--A
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    January 30, 2017
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  Sens. SAVINO, SANDERS -- read twice and ordered printed,
          and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Labor  --  recom-
          mitted  to  the  Committee  on Labor in accordance with Senate Rule 6,
          sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill  amended,  ordered  reprinted  as
          amended and recommitted to said committee
        AN ACT to amend the workers' compensation law, in relation to attachment
          to the labor market in temporary partial disability cases
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Subdivision 5 of section 15 of  the  workers'  compensation
     2  law,  as  amended by chapter 161 of the laws of 1966, is amended to read
     3  as follows:
     4    5. Temporary partial disability. In case of temporary partial disabil-
     5  ity resulting in decrease of earning capacity, the compensation shall be
     6  two-thirds of the difference  between  the  injured  employee's  average
     7  weekly wages before the accident and his wage earning capacity after the
     8  accident in the same or other employment. Compensation under this subdi-
     9  vision shall be payable during the continuance of such temporary partial
    10  disability,  without the necessity for the claimant to demonstrate ongo-
    11  ing attachment to the labor market, unless  the  board  finds  that  the
    12  injured  employee's  loss  of  wages  is  wholly unrelated to his or her
    13  partial disability.
    14    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03017-02-8
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