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Jan 06, 2016 |
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Jan 16, 2015 |
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Assembly Bill A2438
2015-2016 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
KIM
Archive: Last Bill Status - In Assembly Committee
- Introduced
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- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
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- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
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- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- Delivered to Governor
- Signed By Governor
Actions
2015-A2438 (ACTIVE) - Details
2015-A2438 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 2438 2015-2016 Regular Sessions I N A S S E M B L Y January 16, 2015 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. KIM -- read once and referred to the Committee on Labor AN ACT to amend the workers' compensation law, in relation to the estab- lishment of a fee schedule covering the costs of ambulance services provided to injured employees THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Subdivision (a) of section 13 of the workers' compensation law, as amended by chapter 6 of the laws of 2007, is amended to read as follows: (a) The employer shall promptly provide for an injured employee such medical, dental, surgical, optometric or other attendance or treatment, AMBULANCE SERVICES, nurse and hospital service, medicine, optometric services, crutches, eye-glasses, false teeth, artificial eyes, orthot- ics, prosthetic devices, functional assistive and adaptive devices and apparatus for such period as the nature of the injury or the process of recovery may require. The employer shall be liable for the payment of the expenses of medical, dental, surgical, optometric or other attend- ance or treatment, AMBULANCE SERVICES, nurse and hospital service, medi- cine, optometric services, crutches, eye-glasses, false teeth, artifi- cial eyes, orthotics, prosthetic devices, functional assistive and adaptive devices and apparatus, as well as artificial members of the body or other devices or appliances necessary in the first instance to replace, support or relieve a portion or part of the body resulting from and necessitated by the injury of an employee, for such period as the nature of the injury or the process of recovery may require, and the employer shall also be liable for replacements or repairs of such arti- ficial members of the body or such other devices, eye-glasses, false teeth, artificial eyes, orthotics, prosthetic devices, functional assis- tive and adaptive devices or appliances necessitated by ordinary wear or loss or damage to a prosthesis, with or without bodily injury to the EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD00402-01-5
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