Bill Text: NY S05954 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides that where a correction officer, sergeant, captain, corporal, lieutenant, deputy warden or warden employed by the New York state department of corrections and community supervision, the department of correction of the city of New York or any county or municipality files a claim for mental injury premised upon extraordinary work-related stress incurred in a work-related emergency, the board may not disallow the claim, upon a factual finding that the stress was not greater than that which usually occurs in the normal work environment.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 9-2)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - REFERRED TO LABOR [S05954 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S05954-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5954
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                       May 8, 2017
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        Introduced  by Sens. ALCANTARA, SAVINO, PERALTA, VALESKY, KLEIN, CARLUC-
          CI, GALLIVAN, HAMILTON, AVELLA -- 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 liability
          for compensation
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Paragraph (b) of subdivision 3 of section 10 of the work-
     2  ers' compensation law, as added by section 1 of subpart I of part NNN of
     3  chapter 59 of the laws of 2017, is amended to read as follows:
     4    (b) Where a police officer or firefighter subject to section thirty of
     5  this article, or  emergency  medical  technician,  paramedic,  or  other
     6  person  certified  to  provide medical care in emergencies, or emergency
     7  dispatcher or correction officer, sergeant, captain, corporal,  lieuten-
     8  ant,  deputy  warden or warden employed by the New York state department
     9  of corrections and community supervision, the department  of  correction
    10  of  the city of New York or any county or municipality files a claim for
    11  mental injury premised upon extraordinary work-related  stress  incurred
    12  in  a work-related emergency, the board may not disallow the claim, upon
    13  a factual finding that the stress was not greater than that which usual-
    14  ly occurs in the normal work environment.
    15    § 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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