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Jan 03, 2018 |
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May 11, 2017 |
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Senate Bill S6328
2017-2018 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
(D, WF) Senate District
Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Labor Committee
- Introduced
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- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
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- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
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- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- Delivered to Governor
- Signed By Governor
Actions
2017-S6328 (ACTIVE) - Details
- Current Committee:
- Senate Labor
- Law Section:
- Workers' Compensation Law
- Laws Affected:
- Amd §25, Work Comp L
- Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
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2019-2020:
S2710
2021-2022: S3948
2023-2024: S5866
2017-S6328 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo
BILL NUMBER: S6328 TITLE OF BILL : An act to amend the workers' compensation law, in relation to permitting payments 14 days after the due date PURPOSE : Permits employers or insurance carriers to pay installments of compensation within fourteen days after the due date, instead of the current twenty-five days. SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS : Section 1 amends paragraph (e) of subdivision 1 of section 25 of the workers' compensation law, by changing the number of days after a due date for payment from twenty-five to fourteen. JUSTIFICATION : New York's workers' compensation law allows employers and insurers to make a payment, without penalty, up to twenty-five days after a due date. This creates situations where injured workers counting on timely payments may not receive payment until twenty-five days later. Before electronic payments, a twenty-five day timeframe allowed for checks that may have been delayed in the mail to be delivered.
2017-S6328 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 6328 2017-2018 Regular Sessions I N S E N A T E May 11, 2017 ___________ Introduced by Sen. KENNEDY -- 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 permitting payments 14 days after the due date THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Paragraph (e) of subdivision 1 of section 25 of the work- ers' compensation law, as amended by chapter 635 of the laws of 1996, is amended to read as follows: (e) If the employer or insurance carrier shall fail to pay any installments of compensation within [twenty-five] FOURTEEN days after the same become due, there shall be paid by the employer or, if insured, its insurance carrier, an additional amount of twenty percent of the compensation then due which shall accrue for the benefit of the injured worker or his or her dependents and shall be paid to him or her or them with the compensation, unless such delay or default is excused by the board upon the application of the employer or insurance carrier upon the ground that owing to conditions over which the employer or insurance carrier had no control, such payment could not be made. The employer in each such instance shall also be assessed the sum of three hundred dollars, which shall be paid to the claimant. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD06549-01-7
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