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Assembly Bill A5758

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Relates to covered employment as a domestic worker for temporary disability benefits

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2017-A5758 (ACTIVE) - Details

Law Section:
Workers' Compensation Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §202, Work Comp L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2013-2014: A6358
2015-2016: A3504
2019-2020: A1326
2021-2022: A6077

2017-A5758 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to covered employment as a domestic worker for temporary disability benefits.

2017-A5758 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5758
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 15, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. TITUS -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Labor
 
 AN ACT to amend the workers' compensation law, in  relation  to  covered
   employment as a domestic worker for temporary disability benefits
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 202 of the  workers'  compensation
 law, as amended by chapter 65 of the laws of 1983, is amended to read as
 follows:
   2.  The  provisions of subdivision one of this section shall not apply
 to an employer of personal or domestic  employees  in  a  private  home,
 except  an  employer  shall become a covered employer from and after the
 expiration of four  weeks  following  the  employment  of  one  or  more
 personal  or domestic employees who work for a minimum of [forty] TWENTY
 hours per week for such employer and are employed on each  of  at  least
 thirty days in any calendar year.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD06116-01-7

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