| Date of Action |
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| Jan 08, 2020 |
referred to labor |
| Feb 21, 2019 |
referred to labor |
Senate Bill S3961
2019-2020 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
(D, WF) 18th Senate District
Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Labor Committee
Actions
2019-S3961 (ACTIVE) - Details
2019-S3961 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo
BILL NUMBER: S3961
SPONSOR: SALAZAR
TITLE OF BILL:
An act to amend the workers' compensation law, in relation to covered
employment as a domestic worker for temporary disability benefits
SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS:
Section 1 would make a technical amendment to Chapter 481 of 2010, the
Domestic Workers Bill of Rights. It would amend section 202(2) of the
Workers Compensation Law to clarify that domestic workers who work at
least twenty hours per week and meet the duration of employment standard
of four weeks are covered under the temporary disability benefits law.
Section 2 is the effective date of the bill.
JUSTIFICATION:
This bill would make clear the original intent in the Domestic Workers
2019-S3961 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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3961
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
I N S E N A T E
February 21, 2019
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Introduced by Sen. SALAZAR -- 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 covered
employment as a domestic worker for temporary disability benefits
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 202 of the workers' compensation
law, as amended by chapter 65 of the laws of 1983, is amended to read as
follows:
2. The provisions of subdivision one of this section shall not apply
to an employer of personal or domestic employees in a private home,
except an employer shall become a covered employer from and after the
expiration of four weeks following the employment of one or more
personal or domestic employees who work for a minimum of [forty] TWENTY
hours per week for such employer and are employed on each of at least
thirty days in any calendar year.
§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD07731-01-9
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