Senate Bill S5201

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Includes certain workers in New York city vehicle repair shops within the definition of participant in World Trade Center rescue, recovery or cleanup operations

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2009-S5201 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A4527
Current Committee:
Senate Labor
Law Section:
Workers' Compensation Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §161, Work Comp L

2009-S5201 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Includes certain workers in New York city vehicle repair shops within the definition of participant in World Trade Center rescue, recovery or cleanup operations.

2009-S5201 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2009-S5201 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  5201

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                             April 27, 2009
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sen.  SAVINO -- 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  certain
  workers in New York city vehicle repair shops

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

  Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 161 of the  workers'  compensation
law,  as added by chapter 446 of the laws of 2006, is amended to read as
follows:
  1. "Participant in World Trade Center  rescue,  recovery,  or  cleanup
operations"  means any (a) employee who within the course of employment,
or (b) volunteer upon presentation to the board of evidence satisfactory
to the board that he or she:
  (i) participated in the rescue, recovery, or cleanup operations at the
World Trade Center site between September eleventh, two thousand one and
September twelfth, two thousand two; or
  (ii) worked at the Fresh Kills Land Fill  in  New  York  city  between
September eleventh, two thousand one and September twelfth, two thousand
two[,]; or
  (iii)  worked  at  the New York city morgue or the temporary morgue on
pier locations on the west side of Manhattan between September eleventh,
two thousand one and September twelfth, two thousand two[,]; or
  (iv) worked on the barges between the west side of Manhattan  and  the
Fresh  Kills  Land Fill in New York city between September eleventh, two
thousand one and September twelfth, two thousand two; OR
  (V) REPAIRED, CLEANED OR REHABILITATED VEHICLES OR EQUIPMENT OWNED  BY
THE CITY OF NEW YORK THAT WERE CONTAMINATED BY DEBRIS IN THE WORLD TRADE
CENTER  SITE,  REGARDLESS OF WHETHER THE WORK ON THE REPAIR, CLEANING OR
REHABILITATION OF SUCH VEHICLES AND EQUIPMENT WAS PERFORMED  WITHIN  THE
WORLD  TRADE  CENTER  SITE, BETWEEN SEPTEMBER ELEVENTH, TWO THOUSAND ONE
AND  SEPTEMBER  TWELFTH,  TWO  THOUSAND  TWO,  PROVIDED  SUCH  WORK  WAS
PERFORMED PRIOR TO DECONTAMINATION OF SUCH VEHICLES OR EQUIPMENT.
  S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets

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