Assembly Bill A2657

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Relates to direct deposit of workers' compensation payments

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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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2017-A2657 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S1776
Current Committee:
Assembly Labor
Law Section:
Workers' Compensation Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §25, Work Comp L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2015-2016: A9485, S7425
2019-2020: A377, S7081

2017-A2657 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires employers and insurers to offer direct deposit to recipients of workers' compensation payments.

2017-A2657 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   2657
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 20, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. STECK -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Labor
 
 AN ACT to amend the workers' compensation law,  in  relation  to  direct
   deposit of compensation payments
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 9 of section 25 of  the  work-
 ers'  compensation law, as amended by chapter 70 of the laws of 2005, is
 amended to read as follows:
   (a) Compensation payments or  any  portion  of  compensation  payments
 [may]  SHALL be allowed, upon the written request from an injured worker
 or a person entitled to a death benefit provided by this chapter, to  be
 deposited  directly  in a bank for any purpose to an account in the name
 of such injured worker or person entitled to a death benefit,  on  forms
 provided  by  the  board,  and  duly filed in accordance with such regu-
 lations[, provided that an injured worker's employer, if  such  employer
 is  an  authorized  self  insured employer, or otherwise such employer's
 insurance carrier, has elected to permit  the  direct  deposit  of  such
 compensation payments].
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD02387-01-7

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