STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 4336--A 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN SENATE February 10, 2017 ___________ Introduced by Sen. DeFRANCISCO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Labor -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the workers' compensation law, in relation to the defi- nition of "employer" for the purposes of disability benefits The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section 201 of the workers' compensation 2 law, as added by chapter 600 of the laws of 1949, is amended to read as 3 follows: 4 4. "Employer," except when otherwise expressly stated, means a person, 5 partnership, association, corporation, legal representative of a 6 deceased employer, or the receiver or trustee of a person, partnership, 7 association or corporation, who has persons in employment as defined in 8 subdivision six of this section and who has twenty or more employees, 9 but does not include the state, a municipal corporation, local govern- 10 mental agency, other political subdivisions or public authority. 11 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD08060-03-7