Senate Bill S2881

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to schedule in case of disability

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Labor Committee


  • 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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2019-S2881 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Labor
Law Section:
Workers' Compensation Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §15, Work Comp L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: S8563
2021-2022: S8271
2023-2024: S1161

2019-S2881 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to schedule in case of disability; provides the compensation shall not be less than one-fifth of the New York state average weekly wage unless the employee's weekly wage is equal to or less than one-fifth the weekly wage, then they shall receive the entire amount.

2019-S2881 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2019-S2881 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   2881
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 30, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. SANDERS -- 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  schedule
   in case of disability
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 6 of section 15 of  the  work-
 ers'  compensation  law, as amended by section 7-a of part GG of chapter
 57 of the laws of 2013, is amended to read as follows:
   (a) Compensation for permanent or temporary total disability due to an
 accident or disablement resulting  from  an  occupational  disease  that
 occurs,  (1)  on or after January first, nineteen hundred seventy-eight,
 shall not exceed one hundred twenty-five dollars per week,  that  occurs
 (2)  on  or  after July first, nineteen hundred seventy-eight, shall not
 exceed one hundred eighty dollars per week, that occurs (3) on or  after
 January  first,  nineteen  hundred  seventy-nine,  shall  not exceed two
 hundred fifteen dollars per week, that  occurs  (4)  on  or  after  July
 first,  nineteen  hundred  eighty-three,  shall  not  exceed two hundred
 fifty-five dollars per week, that occurs (5) on  or  after  July  first,
 nineteen  hundred eighty-four, shall not exceed two hundred seventy-five
 dollars per week, that occurs (6)  on  or  after  July  first,  nineteen
 hundred  eighty-five,  shall  not exceed three hundred dollars per week,
 that occurs (7) on or after July first, nineteen hundred  ninety,  shall
 not  exceed  three  hundred  forty  dollars per week; and in the case of
 temporary total disability shall not be less  than  thirty  dollars  per
 week  and  in  the  case of permanent total disability shall not be less
 than twenty dollars per week except that if the employee's wages at  the
 time  of  injury are less than thirty or twenty dollars per week respec-
 tively, he or she shall receive his or her full weekly wages.    Compen-
 sation  for permanent or temporary partial disability due to an accident
 or disablement resulting from an occupational disease that occurs (1) on
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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