Bill Text: NY S05331 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Provides an insurance premium reduction for landscape businesses whose employees complete a safety course for the landscape industry.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO LABOR [S05331 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S05331-Introduced.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                          5331
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                     April 26, 2019
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  Sen.  KAPLAN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Labor
        AN ACT to amend the workers' compensation law, in relation to  providing
          an  insurance premium reduction for landscape businesses whose employ-
          ees complete a safety course for the landscape industry
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  The  workers' compensation law is amended by adding a new
     2  section 138 to read as follows:
     3    § 138. Occupational safety and health administration  course;  premium
     4  reduction.  1.  For  purposes of this section, the term "landscape busi-
     5  ness" shall mean a business whose primary concern involves the modifica-
     6  tion of the visible features of an area of land, and shall include,  but
     7  not  be  limited  to, lawn care, gardening and the removal or pruning of
     8  trees.
     9    2. Notwithstanding any other provision of law  to  the  contrary,  any
    10  insurer  doing  business  within  this state who offers workers' compen-
    11  sation insurance to landscape  businesses  doing  business  within  this
    12  state  shall  provide  a  ten percent reduction in its premiums for such
    13  insurance to any landscape business  that  meets  the  requirements  set
    14  forth in subdivision three of this section.
    15    3.  Any  person,  firm, partnership, limited liability company, corpo-
    16  ration or  any  other  business  entity  shall  receive  a  ten  percent
    17  reduction  in  its  workers'  compensation premium for any year in which
    18  fifty percent or more of the employees  of  such  business  successfully
    19  complete  the  ten  hour  construction safety course for the landscaping
    20  industry approved by the occupational safety and health  administration.
    21  Such  premium  reduction shall be available on an annual basis. Applica-
    22  tion for such premium reduction shall be made in a  manner  and  with  a
    23  standardized  form to be developed cooperatively between the commission-
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11346-01-9

        S. 5331                             2
     1  ers of the state insurance fund,  the  commissioner  of  labor  and  the
     2  superintendent of financial services.
     3    4.  The commissioners of the state insurance fund, in cooperation with
     4  the commissioner of labor and the superintendent of financial  services,
     5  are  authorized  to promulgate rules and regulations necessary to imple-
     6  ment the provisions of this section.
     7    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
     8  it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition,  amend-
     9  ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen-
    10  tation  of  this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and
    11  completed on or before such date.
feedback