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Senate Bill S3045

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Subjects workers' compensation death benefits to apportionment in proportion to causation

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2017-S3045 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Labor
Law Section:
Workers' Compensation Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §16, Work Comp L
Versions Introduced in 2015-2016 Legislative Session:
S5505

2017-S3045 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Subjects workers' compensation death benefits to apportionment in proportion to causation.

2017-S3045 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2017-S3045 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   3045
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 19, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. AMEDORE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Labor
 
 AN ACT to amend the workers' compensation law, in relation to subjecting
   a death benefit to apportionment in proportion to causation
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. The opening paragraph of section 16 of the workers' compen-
 sation law, as amended by chapter 550 of the laws of 1978, is amended to
 read as follows:
   If the injury causes death, the compensation shall be known as a death
 benefit  and shall be payable in the amount and to or for the benefit of
 the persons following, SUBJECT TO APPORTIONMENT IN PROPORTION TO  CAUSA-
 TION:
   §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
 have become a law.
 
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD08718-01-7

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