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Senate Bill S8035

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Relates to weekly wages basis of compensation for certain injured employees

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2017-S8035 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A11029
Current Committee:
Senate Labor
Law Section:
Workers' Compensation Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §14, Work Comp L
Versions Introduced in 2019-2020 Legislative Session:
S2060, A5417

2017-S8035 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to weekly wages basis of compensation for certain injured employees; relates to those under age 35.

2017-S8035 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2017-S8035 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8035
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              March 21, 2018
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by Sens. ALCANTARA, SAVINO -- 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 weekly
   wages basis of compensation for certain injured employees
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section  1.  Subdivision  5 of section 14 of the workers' compensation
 law, as amended by chapter 730 of the laws of 1978, is amended  to  read
 as follows:
   5. If it be established that the injured employee was under the age of
 [twenty-five]  THIRTY-FIVE  when injured, OR WAS ACCEPTED TO OR ENROLLED
 IN AN APPRENTICESHIP TRAINING PROGRAM APPROVED BY  THE  COMMISSIONER  OF
 LABOR  PURSUANT TO ARTICLE TWENTY-THREE OF THE LABOR LAW, and that under
 normal conditions his OR HER wages would be expected to  increase,  that
 fact  [may] SHALL be considered in arriving at his OR HER average weekly
 wages.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD14816-01-8

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