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Assembly Bill A649

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to attachment to the labor market in certain disability cases

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2019-A649 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S3234
Current Committee:
Assembly Labor
Law Section:
Workers' Compensation Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §15, Work Comp L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2013-2014: S5294
2015-2016: S2768
2017-2018: A9718, S3922

2019-A649 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to attachment to the labor market in temporary partial disability cases.

2019-A649 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    649
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 9, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. BRONSON -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Labor
 
 AN ACT to amend the workers' compensation law, in relation to attachment
   to the labor market in temporary partial disability cases

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivision  5 of section 15 of the workers' compensation
 law, as amended by chapter 161 of the laws of 1966, is amended  to  read
 as follows:
   5. Temporary partial disability. In case of temporary partial disabil-
 ity resulting in decrease of earning capacity, the compensation shall be
 two-thirds  of  the  difference  between  the injured employee's average
 weekly wages before the accident and his wage earning capacity after the
 accident in the same or other employment. COMPENSATION UNDER THIS SUBDI-
 VISION SHALL BE PAYABLE DURING THE CONTINUANCE OF SUCH TEMPORARY PARTIAL
 DISABILITY, WITHOUT THE NECESSITY FOR THE CLAIMANT TO DEMONSTRATE  ONGO-
 ING  ATTACHMENT  TO  THE  LABOR  MARKET, UNLESS THE BOARD FINDS THAT THE
 INJURED EMPLOYEE'S LOSS OF WAGES IS  WHOLLY  UNRELATED  TO  HIS  OR  HER
 PARTIAL DISABILITY.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD04768-01-9

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