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Assembly Bill A4669

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Provides workers' compensation benefits to lifeguards who contract skin cancer

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2009-A4669 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Labor
Law Section:
Workers' Compensation Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §3, add §126, Work Comp L

2009-A4669 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides workers' compensation benefits to lifeguards who contract skin cancer; creates a rebuttable presumption that the skin cancer was contracted as a result of the individual's employment as a lifeguard.

2009-A4669 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  4669

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            February 5, 2009
                               ___________

Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  WEISENBERG  -- read once and referred to the
  Committee on Labor

AN ACT to amend the workers' compensation law, in relation to  providing
  benefits  to  individuals  who  contract  skin cancer while working as
  lifeguards

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section  1. Paragraph 30 of subdivision 2 of section 3 of the workers'
compensation law, as renumbered by chapter 665 of the laws of  1971,  is
renumbered  paragraph  31  and  a  new  paragraph 30 is added to read as
follows:
30. SKIN CANCER.                  30. PROLONGED EXPOSURE TO THE SUN
                                  THROUGH EMPLOYMENT AS A LIFEGUARD.
  S 2. The workers' compensation law is amended by adding a new  section
126 to read as follows:
  S  126.  REBUTTABLE  PRESUMPTIONS. THE EXISTENCE OF SKIN CANCER ON ANY
PERSON WHO IS EMPLOYED AS A LIFEGUARD FOR MORE  THAN  THREE  CONSECUTIVE
MONTHS  IN  A  CALENDAR  YEAR CREATES A REBUTTABLE PRESUMPTION THAT SUCH
SKIN CANCER WAS CONTRACTED AS A RESULT OF SUCH  INDIVIDUAL'S  EMPLOYMENT
AS A LIFEGUARD.
  S 3. This act shall take effect immediately.




 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD07965-01-9

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