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Assembly Bill A6671

2015-2016 Legislative Session

Requires workers comp hearings and pre-hearing conferences to be stenographically recorded by a stenographer in the employ of the workers' compensation board

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2015-A6671 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Labor
Law Section:
Workers' Compensation Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง122, Work Comp L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2011-2012: A7508
2013-2014: A5235

2015-A6671 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires workers' compensation hearings and pre-hearing conferences to be stenographically recorded by a stenographer in the employ of the workers' compensation board.

2015-A6671 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  6671

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                             March 30, 2015
                               ___________

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

AN  ACT to amend the workers' compensation law, in relation to requiring
  hearings and pre-hearing conferences to be recorded by a  stenographer
  in the employ of the workers' compensation board

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

  Section 1. Section 122 of the workers' compensation law, as amended by
chapter 113 of the laws of 1946, is amended to read as follows:
  S 122. Transcripts. ALL HEARINGS AND PRE-HEARING CONFERENCES SHALL  BE
STENOGRAPHICALLY  RECORDED BY A STENOGRAPHER IN THE EMPLOY OF THE BOARD.
A copy of the testimony, evidence and procedure  of  any  investigation,
HEARING  OR PRE-HEARING CONFERENCE, or a particular part thereof, STENO-
GRAPHICALLY RECORDED AND transcribed by a stenographer in the employ  of
the  board and certified by such stenographer to be true and correct may
be received in evidence with the same effect  as  if  such  stenographer
were  present  and testifying to the facts so certified.  A copy of such
transcript shall be furnished to any party upon payment of the  fee  for
transcripts of similar minutes in the supreme court.
  S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.




 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD09719-01-5

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