Senate Bill S4554

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Limits workers' compensation benefits for partial permanent disabilities, which limit wage earning by less than 85%, to the period of such disability

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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-S4554 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A6218
Current Committee:
Senate Labor
Law Section:
Workers' Compensation Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §15, Work Comp L

2017-S4554 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Limits workers' compensation benefits for partial permanent disabilities, which limit wage earning by less than 85%, to the period of the continuance of such disability, but not for a period of more than 525 weeks.

2017-S4554 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2017-S4554 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4554
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 17, 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 payment of
   compensation to employees who suffer permanent partial disability
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. The opening paragraph of subdivision 3 of section 15 of the
 workers' compensation law is amended to read as follows:
   In  case  of disability partial in character but permanent in quality,
 FOR WHICH THE IMPAIRMENT OF WAGE EARNING CAPACITY IS FOUND TO  BE  UNDER
 EIGHTY-FIVE  PERCENT, the compensation shall be sixty-six and two-thirds
 per centum of the average weekly wages and shall be paid to the employee
 DURING THE CONTINUANCE OF SUCH PERMANENT PARTIAL DISABILITY,  BUT  SHALL
 NOT  EXCEED  FIVE HUNDRED TWENTY-FIVE WEEKS FROM THE DATE OF THE INJURY.
 IN CASE OF DISABILITY PARTIAL IN CHARACTER BUT PERMANENT IN QUALITY, FOR
 WHICH THE IMPAIRMENT OF WAGE EARNING CAPACITY IF FOUND TO BE EIGHTY-FIVE
 PERCENT OR MORE, THE COMPENSATION  SHALL  BE  SIXTY-SIX  AND  TWO-THIRDS
 PERCENT  OF  THE  AVERAGE WEEKLY WAGES AND SHALL BE PAID TO THE EMPLOYEE
 for the period named in this subdivision, as follows:
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next  succeed-
 ing the date on which it shall have become a law.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD09730-01-7

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