STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         4336--A
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    February 10, 2017
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        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.
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