S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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2019-2020 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
May 2, 2019
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Introduced by M. of A. REYES, ABBATE -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Labor
AN ACT to amend the workers' compensation law, in relation to claims for
mental injury premised upon extraordinary work-related stress
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 3 of section 10 of the work-
ers' compensation law, as added by section 1 of subpart I of part NNN of
chapter 59 of the laws of 2017, is amended to read as follows:
(b) Where a [police officer or firefighter subject to section thirty
of this article, or emergency medical technician, paramedic, or other
person certified to provide medical care in emergencies, or emergency
dispatcher] WORKER files a claim for mental injury premised upon
extraordinary work-related stress incurred [in a work-related emergency]
AT WORK, the board may not disallow the claim, upon a factual finding
that the stress was not greater than that which usually occurs in the
normal work environment.
§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD05586-01-9