Bill Text: NY S08266 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Includes exposure to novel coronavirus, COVID-19, as an occupational disease for which compensation shall be payable for disabilities sustained or death incurred by an employee.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 22-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-05-01 - REFERRED TO LABOR [S08266 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S08266-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          8266

                    IN SENATE

                                       May 1, 2020
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by Sens. RAMOS, GOUNARDES -- 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  including
          exposure to novel coronavirus, COVID-19 as an occupational disease

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Paragraph 30 of subdivision 2 of section 3 of the  workers'
     2  compensation  law  is  renumbered paragraph 31 and a new paragraph 30 is
     3  added to read as follows:
     4  30. Novel coronavirus,   30. Any and all work that causes workers to
     5  COVID-19 exposure.       be in contact with the public, patients,
     6                           inmates, residents, parolees,
     7                           clients, students, customers,
     8                           diners, persons in the
     9                           custody of the state or any
    10                           of its political subdivisions,
    11                           or travelers during an outbreak of the novel
    12                           coronavirus, COVID-19; or any
    13                           and all work that could
    14                           expose workers to novel
    15                           coronavirus, COVID-19, which
    16                           shall include, but not be limited to,
    17                           work in a hospital,
    18                           medical facility, laboratory,
    19                           medical office, nursing
    20                           home, correctional facility,
    21                           mental health facility, social
    22                           services facility, airport,
    23                           bus station, train station,
    24                           subway station, park, restaurant,
    25                           cafeteria, retail
    26                           facility, airplane, bus, train,
    27                           subway, university, college,
    28                           school, daycare facility,

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD16203-01-0
        S. 8266                             2

     1                           childcare facility, hotel, resort,
     2                           casino, convention center,
     3                           meeting facility or work for a
     4                           public utility, work for any businesses
     5                           deemed to provide essential services
     6                           during an outbreak of the
     7                           novel coronavirus, COVID-19, any work outside
     8                           the home during a period of closure
     9                           of non-essential businesses, or public
    10                           employment during an outbreak of
    11                           the novel coronavirus, COVID-19.
    12    §  2. The closing paragraph of subdivision 2 of section 3 of the work-
    13  ers' compensation law, as amended by chapter 666 of the laws of 1971, is
    14  amended to read as follows:
    15    Nothing in paragraph [thirty] thirty-one of this subdivision shall  be
    16  construed  to  apply  to  any  disability  or  death  due to any disease
    17  described in paragraph twenty-nine of this subdivision.
    18    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.