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Assembly Bill A7777

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Relates to liability for compensation

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2017-A7777 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S5954
Law Section:
Workers' Compensation Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §10, Work Comp L
Versions Introduced in 2019-2020 Legislative Session:
S1981

2017-A7777 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides that where a correction officer, sergeant, captain, corporal, lieutenant, deputy warden or warden employed by the New York state department of corrections and community supervision, the department of correction of the city of New York or any county or municipality files a claim for mental injury premised upon extraordinary work-related stress incurred in a work-related emergency, the board may not disallow the claim, upon a factual finding that the stress was not greater than that which usually occurs in the normal work environment.

2017-A7777 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7777
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               May 15, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. HARRIS -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Labor
 
 AN  ACT to amend the workers' compensation law, in relation to liability
   for compensation
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section  1.  Paragraph (b) of subdivision 3 of section 10 of the work-
 ers' compensation law, as added by section 1 of subpart I of part NNN of
 chapter 59 of the laws of 2017, is amended to read as follows:
   (b) Where a police officer or firefighter subject to section thirty of
 this article, or  emergency  medical  technician,  paramedic,  or  other
 person  certified  to  provide medical care in emergencies, or emergency
 dispatcher OR CORRECTION OFFICER, SERGEANT, CAPTAIN, CORPORAL,  LIEUTEN-
 ANT,  DEPUTY  WARDEN OR WARDEN EMPLOYED BY THE NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT
 OF CORRECTIONS AND COMMUNITY SUPERVISION, THE DEPARTMENT  OF  CORRECTION
 OF  THE CITY OF NEW YORK OR ANY COUNTY OR MUNICIPALITY files a claim for
 mental injury premised upon extraordinary work-related  stress  incurred
 in  a work-related emergency, the board may not disallow the claim, upon
 a factual finding that the stress was not greater than that which usual-
 ly occurs in the normal work environment.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD11525-01-7

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